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Pilot Ping to the rescue!

‘It’s a privilege,’ say staff with the Mission Aviation Fellowship, ‘to be the sole air ambulance service for the entire population of Timor-Leste.’ The Christian aviation charity responds to multiple medical emergency flight requests every week, flying to and from Dili to save hundreds of lives.

Gary Clayton, MAF

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Clementino & Marcia with baby Francelina. Insert Pilot Ping | photo: Mark Hewes (MAF)

Because her village has no roads and no electricity, pregnant Marcia Pereira de Sousa was forced to walk for four hours to receive help from a rural health clinic on the eastern side of Atauro Island.