January 2020

Defining Moments – 2019 in Review 2019 IN NUMBERS We served 116 different villages in the East Sepik province 21,894 LBS. OF MEDICAL SUPPLIES DELIVERED TO REMOTE AID POSTS AND HEALTH CENTERS Hundreds of thousands of vaccines delivered 245 PATIENTS FLOWN TO THE HOSPITAL

Malcom

Recently our chief pilot, Luke, departed on a morning medicine delivery flight to Yembi Yembi, delivering 418 pounds of critical medical supplies for their aid post and the surrounding community. After arriving and unloading the medicine, one of the men told him about a young boy who needed medical attention. Seven-year-old Malcom had fallen out of […]

Sulkan

Bringing hope and access to people in need is at the core of everything Samaritan Aviation does. Whether it’s helping a mother struggling through a difficult childbirth or a young boy suffering from cerebral malaria, it is often easy to see how the service we offer brings access to emergency lifesaving medical treatment and hope for a chance at life.

Pamela

Pamela’s Second Chance “Pamela was diagnosed with cerebral malaria and it was unclear whether or not she would recover.” It was a cloudy Monday when we met little Pamela, a 4-year old girl from Kanduanam village that had been unconscious for three days. As soon as Tracy Hamer, Chris Cooke, and Fred Holcomb had landed […]

Samaritan Aviation’s First Life Flight, 7 Years Later

It was early morning on Good Friday of 2010 when I received the call I’ll never forget; it would be the very first life flight in Samaritan Aviation’s history! Over the phone, a health worker from the remote Sepik River village of Timbunke frantically described a young mother who had been struggling through an obstructed […]

Our June 2016 Quarterly

In this issue: Celebration Day For Our Second Floatplane New Leadership Training Program Disaster Relief Flight Conducted (Click Here to Read) June 2016 Quarterly