2016 Annual Report
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2016 Annual Report Mission Aviation Fellowship International CONTENTS MAF Key Facts 02 Message from the Chairman 04 Message from the CEO 05 Arnhem Land 06 Bangladesh 07 Chad 08 Kenya 09 Liberia 10 Madagascar 11 Mongolia 12 Myanmar 13 Papua New Guinea 14 Technology Services (CRMF) 15 South Sudan 16 Tanzania 17 Timor-Leste 18 Uganda 19 Flight Training & Engineering 20 Our Fleet 21 Safety 22 Financial Report 23 MAF KEY FACTS - Mission Aviation Fellowship (MAF) is a global movement founded in 1945 by a group of Christian Second World War servicemen and women who shared a vision to use aviation to spread the love of God. - MAF International is the operational wing of the organisation and oversees programmes in Arnhem Land in Australia, Bangladesh, Chad, Kenya, Liberia, Madagascar, Mongolia, Papua New Guinea, South Sudan, Tanzania, Timor-Leste and Uganda. We are also in the process of establishing a new programme in Myanmar. - Our Associate Members, MAF Canada and MAF-US, and various MAF Affiliates also run a number of programmes around the globe. - MAF globally has around 135 aircraft serving in 26 countries. - MAF aircraft flew more than 8.3 million kilometres in 2016 – more than 207 times around the equator. - A Mission Aviation Fellowship aircraft takes off or lands every 4 minutes somewhere in the world. - None of the life changing work we enable would be possible without the dedicated support – people, financial and prayer - provided by our Resourcing Groups based in Australia, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, India, Italy, Malaysia, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, the Philippines, South Africa, Singapore, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK and the US. 2 MAF International Annual Report 2016 61 aircraft 686 destinations MAF 1,567 organisations served International 850 medical evacuations 526 staff 20,910 hours flown by numbers in 75,408 passengers transported 4.26 million kilometres flown 2016 3 million kilograms of cargo transported OUR VISION TO SEE ISOLATED PEOPLE PHYSICALLY AND SPIRITUALLY TRANSFORMED IN CHRIST’S NAME OUR PURPOSE SHARING GOD’S LOVE THROUGH AVIATION AND TECHNOLOGY OUR VALUES Impact Witness Excellence Changing Lives Reflecting Christ Working To The Wherever We In All We Do Highest Standards Serve Partnership Care Transformation Stewardship Nuturing And Through Making Best Use Respecting Our Collaboration Of Our Resources Staff Annual Report 2016 3 MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIRMAN 016 was another busy year for MAF At the end of 2016, MAF International CEO International, as our 14 programmes Chris Lukkien announced his decision to leave and 61 aircraft across the world MAF to return to the Netherlands in 2carried over 75,000 passengers and May 2017 to become CEO of ZOA, a Christian 3 million kg of essential cargo to more than charity which provides humanitarian relief and 680 remote destinations. recovery in many parts of the world. We are privileged to serve over 1,500 Chris made an enormous contribution to partners and key organisations across the MAF during his 20 years of devoted service, world, from local churches and mission firstly in Africa and then in Ashford where he groups to larger humanitarian NGOs – all became CEO of MAF International. Chris has helping to bring healthcare, education, food been an exemplary leader, helped by his great and hope to the most isolated communities. understanding of MAF, his many qualities and his open and caring style, all grounded in the Last year we conducted 850 medical evacuation flights, offering a lifeline to love of the Lord. He will be greatly missed. the sick and injured. We flew a team of doctors I would like to thank Chris on behalf of the creating 3D prosthetic limbs for those maimed MAF International Board for all he has done by war in South Sudan; transported those over the years. Thanks also to his wife Annet involved in a piped water project bringing safe and their three children for their unstinting John Quin water and sanitation to nearly 1 million people support. We wish them every success and happiness for the future. (Photo above: John Chairman in the Pathuakhali district of Bangladesh; and our Technology Services team in PNG ran IT Quin with Annet Lukkien, Chris Lukkien and training courses to equip pastors and church Stuart King). workers in PNG with basic computing skills Following a successful recruitment to help them spread the Gospel. process in early 2017, we have appointed Dave Fyock as the new CEO of MAF IT HAS BEEN One of the highlights of this year has been how our resourcing groups continue International. Dave has spent the last twenty A YEAR OF to develop and grow, especially the new Asia five years with MAF-US as a pilot, programme groups like Singapore and the Philippines, and manager, Regional Director, Vice President CHANGE, BUT Resources, CFO and Vice President the enhanced sense of unity we are seeing. In Operations. He therefore has enormous ONE THING September at our Global Forum in Finland we experience and knowledge of MAF work in saw a strengthening of the covenant between THAT REMAINS helping to reach the most isolated people in MAF International members, as well as more the world. Dave will take up the CEO role in CONSTANT global collaboration and harmonisation on September 2017. MAF International issues like recruitment and international staff IS THE LOYAL Development Director Bill Harding has kindly remuneration packages. We also celebrated SUPPORT AND agreed to become Interim CEO until Dave 40 years of MAF Finland. takes up the position. Bill also has extensive COMMITMENT During the year the MAF International experience of MAF, both in the field and in the FROM ALL Board welcomed two new members, Ndaba most senior executive positions within MAF. OUR STAFF, Mazabane from South Africa and Bill Watson We are grateful that Bill will provide continuity from Canada. during this period of transition. DONORS AND In December our Chief Financial Officer (CFO) It has been a year of change, but one SUPPORTERS Janet Busk stepped down after 10 years in this thing that remains constant is the loyal support role. I am so grateful for Janet’s service to the and commitment from all our staff, donors ACROSS THE organisation and for her professionalism and and supporters across the world. I wish to WORLD support to the Board. It was also pleasing that thank them for all that they do to help her Deputy, Anna Beck, was willing to take on continue our vision to transform lives the CFO position. wherever we serve. 4 MAF International Annual Report 2016 MESSAGE FROM THE CEO his was a year of transition for MAF On a more positive note, our Liberia International with some pleasing programme grew last year, with increasing successes as we started to embed demand from customers who are seeing the Tour new Strategic Plan, but along benefits of our service; we continue to make with change, 2016 also brought some progress in Myanmar, especially in the area of significant challenges. airstrip development; and we celebrated 50 Over the year our teams saw a deterioration years of serving in Chad. Safety statistics again in security in several places where we serve, showed a healthy trend, with no accidents in including terrorist incidents in Bangladesh and 2016. In fact, the key performance indicators Chad and we have even had attacks on staff in of safety were the best we have had. We also Papua New Guinea and South Sudan. In July celebrated the launch of the new Regular we were forced to temporarily evacuate staff Public Transport service in Arnhem Land Bill Harding from our South Sudan programme following in November, after 5 years of complex Interim CEO renewed fighting in the country. negotiations and documentation, and it is Due to the dedication of our South Sudan already proving a great benefit to local staff, alongside colleagues from our Uganda Yolŋu people. and Kenya programmes and the MAF Disaster We have been blessed with the provision of Response team, we were able to mobilise a funding for key projects and assets this year, WE WERE co-ordinated effort to help evacuate many including several aircraft - a C182SMA for ABLE TO other partners from South Sudan as well as Madagascar, a C208 for PNG and a C172 for fly resources in to those who remained. the Mareeba training centre, and we MOBILISE A Recruitment generally remains one of the undertook the refurbishment of the second CO-ORDINATED toughest challenges for us, and despite all the Twin Otter in PNG. We completed a staff effort we have put into it, the number of new housing project in Juba, South Sudan, EFFORT TO international staff joining to serve in a national staff housing project in Wewak, HELP EVACUATE programmes dropped in 2016. Fortunately, PNG, avionics upgrades on a number of fewer people left our programmes this year, aircraft and implemented several solar power MANY OTHER meaning that we still saw a net increase to projects. We are very grateful to all of the PARTNERS staffing levels. 2017 already looks a lot more resourcing groups for the contribution FROM SOUTH promising with several key programme they make to the ministry of MAF and leadership roles filled and a steady pipeline we give thanks especially to MAF UK, SUDAN AS of pilots, as well as the appointment of a new MAF Netherlands, MAF Switzerland, WELL AS FLY CEO. One of our themes of strategic change MAF Germany and MAF Norway for the is to become ‘more international’ and as the funding of these projects. RESOURCES IN result of promotional efforts in Singapore and Every few minutes somewhere in the world TO THOSE WHO India, there were 6 Asian staff in international a MAF aircraft is taking off or landing – and I roles by the end of 2016.