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The Foundation for the Peoples of the South Pacific (FSP) was the inspiration of Elizabeth "Betty" Bryant-Silverstein and her husband, Maurice "Red" Silverstein in the early sixties. Betty Bryant was a prominent Australian actress, perhaps best known locally for her starring role in Australia's first internationally successful film Forty Thousand Horsemen. AFAP's mission is To be a leading agent for poverty alleviation through innovative and appropriate community- based development focused in the South Pacific, Asia and Africa |
MAF is a not-for-profit team of aviation professionals providing air transport in places of deepest human need - remote places where flying is not a luxury, but a lifeline. For 60 years, MAF has flown over jungles, mountains, swamps and deserts to bring medical care, training and education, community development, crisis relief and Christian hope to hundreds of thousands of people in remote communities around the world.
 hundreds of remote area clinics depend on MAF as their supply line as they have no road or river access. Dr. Juliette Jacob, a Papua New Guinean doctor working in a remote clinic, recently said that everything in her hospital arrives by MAF – every suture, every dressing, every bag of IV fluid, as well as many of the patients. And of course, every anti-malarial tablet, every mosquito net and the insecticide to treat them, gets there on the MAF plane as well. MAF’s air transport and communication services are used by around 1,000 other organisations to get their people and equipment where they need to be. MAF serves in the remote areas of more than 30 countries, many of which have severe problems with malaria. Countries like Papua New Guinea and Indonesia, Madagascar, Kenya and Angola, Brazil and Ecuador. In the places where MAF operates, an hour’s flight saves, on average, around four days of arduous – often dangerous – surface travel, usually on foot. MAF multiplies the effectiveness of the partners with whom we work. One of our medical partners, working in an area with no roads told us that, before MAF was supporting her program, it took her 3 days on horseback and foot to reach one of their outlying clinics. Three days each way. The MAF plane covers the distance 12 minutes! Today, such amazing increases in efficiency certainly bear out the vision of the men and women who pioneered the use of small aircraft in remote areas more than half a century ago. Your support for the work of MAF will make a real difference in the lives of people living in remote areas, including those communities where malaria is an ever-present threat that robs them of their children and saps the energy and vitality needed to not only survive but to thrive. To make a contribution to this strategic work, please click the donate button below. |
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