Evacuation Flights: Arnhem Land

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Help fund emergency response flights for women and children escaping domestic violence.

Each year on average* MAF flies around 100 women and children, who are in imminent danger, helping them escape domestic violence.

The relief of seeing an approaching MAF plane

The MAF team in Arnhem Land are making a plea on behalf of women and children in remote homeland areas who need to flee situations of domestic violence.

These Yolngu women and children live in Aboriginal communities and homelands which are incredibly isolated. MAF is in a position to provide emergency evacuation.

Safe havens have been set up in Gove and Elcho Island by Crisis Accommodation Gove (CAG) and Galiwin’ku Women’s Space (GWS). 

However, Elcho Island is only accessible by air and Gove is a 6 hour drive on a bumpy dirt road, passable only in the dry season; in the wet season, the women and children are stranded.

MAF’s rapid response program helps women and children who are in imminent danger escape the violence.

_{^{*Between 01 Apr 2020 and 30 May 2023 we flew 319 women and children}}