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Wings of Hope’s support in Africa includes the following:
• SouthAfrica-WingsofHopepart- ners with Mercy Air South Africa, a nonprofit organization based in White River, South Africa. They provide aviation services to over 40,000 people annually, col- laborating with humanitarian and mission organizations throughout southern Africa.
• Tanzania-Formorethan20years, Wings of Hope has partnered with Flying Medical Service (FMS), sup- plying planes, parts and yearly
inspections. Their flying medi- cal clinics serve 25 Maasai settle- ments, visiting each village every other week.
• Zambia - Wings of Hope supports FlySpec, the only orthopedic and reconstructive surgery service providing care via airplane to re- mote parts of Zambia – at no cost to patients.
Wings of Hope provides the follow- ing in the Asia-Pacific region:
• Cambodia-WingsofHopepartners with John Givonetti Giving in an educational outreach program for students living in rural villages in Pursat Province.
• Papua New Guinea - Wings of Hope partners with Samaritan Aviation to provide emergency evacuation services, medical supply delivery, vaccine administration and com- munity health initiatives to a re- gion of 220,000 people along the Sepik River. Their two f loatplanes
provide emergency flights to the only hospital within 37,000 square miles (about the area of Ohio).
In South America, Wings of Hope partners with the following:
• Belize - Belize Emergency Response Team
• Colombia - Patrulla Aérea Civil
• Ecuador - Alas de Socorro
• Nicaragua - Adventist World Aviation
• Paraguay - Iglesia Centro Cristiano Siloh
SOAR into STEM students prepare an aircraft for maintenance
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