Mama Care Ministry
Launched at the start of 2023. Mama Care in PNG has taken flight. South African MAF missionary and founder of Mama Care shares the programme’s progress.
June 27, 2023
STORIES FROM THE FIELD
Read real-life stories of impact from around the world, over our many years of operation…
MAF Helps Reach Refugees in Renk, South Sudan
Dr Paul Gal Atem Managing Director of Sudanese NGO, Concern, South Sudan, flew with MAF and a team from an initiative called The Citizen’s Call for the Emergency Evacuation and Reception of South Sudanese Trapped in the Sudan’s War, to the border town of Renk, where refugees are fleeing the Sudan conflict in their thousands. The organisations were assigned the task of reporting on needs on the ground by the Relief and Rehabilitation Commission.
June 20, 2023
May 9, 2023
Malaria Among Infants in Mozambique
The Lord sent Brenda to places where no one else wanted to go to pioneer evangelise and rescue orphans and widows, in Mozambique’s most remote areas.
April 25, 2023
Dr Junior Mudji’s Malaria Appeal
There is a small village in western Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) called Muzombo. It is isolated, surrounded by jungle and dirt roads. Many hours from a hospital, most Congolese people couldn’t plot Muzombo on a map, it’s that remote.
April 25, 2023
The Fight Against Malaria: Hannah’s Story, UK
Hannah contracted malaria in April 2019 while serving with MAF in Liberia. Despite taking all the advised antimalarial medication, she suffered an acute form of the disease. Four years on, Hannah still experiences side-effects, and her life has never been the same.
April 12, 2023
The Fight Against Malaria: 48 000 Mosquito Nets to Lapalama
According to Rotarians Against Malaria (RAM), 70% of deaths in PNG are caused by malaria. MAF flew to Lapalama twice in February 2023 to deliver 41 bales of mosquito nets to be distributed among the rural community as part of an ongoing partnership with RAM.
April 12, 2023
The Fight Against Malaria: Claudine’s Story, DRC
In 2017 Claudine gave birth naturally to conjoined twins Anick and Destin in a village so remote, most Congolese couldn’t plot it on a map. Given a five percent chance of survival, a MAF medevac flew them to the capital for separation surgery. It was the first successful operation of its kind ever recorded.
April 12, 2023
The Fight Against Malaria: Scovia’s Story, Uganda
Scovia received her first malaria diagnosis as a one-year-old baby. She was born healthy, the youngest of three siblings. Scovia’s mother Jane Feku explains her extraordinary and life-changing symptoms, and how the disease has impacted their family.
April 12, 2023
MAF to suspend operations in Haiti beginning April 1
Due to consistently high levels of gang violence in Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince, MAF has no choice but to suspend its operations in the country from 1 April to 1 January 2024. Current operations are neither safe nor sustainable. We get the latest from MAF Haiti’s Crisis Management Team.
March 30, 2023
Provisional Release for Ryan, Eric & Willem
MAF is thrilled to confirm that Ryan Koher, Eric Dry, and Willem du Plessis, have been granted a provisional release from prison in Mozambique.
March 17, 2023
