MAF in Ecuador

Ecuador lacks a national communications infrastructure, and all-weather roads are practically non-existent.

To overcome these challenges, MAF provides vital aviation and radio communications services to national churches, Christian missions, and NGOs ministering in Ecuador, as well as to jungle villages. These services enable co-ordination of evangelism and discipleship programmes, the request for medical emergency flights, and bring isolated communities together.

Approximately 40% of all MAF flights are medically related, including flights for the Ecuadorian Ministry of Health, which sends healthcare teams into the jungle to provide rural health education programmes. MAF’s chaplain ministry, established in 2005, impacts hundreds of patients and their family members each year.

Since the 1960s the Church has grown significantly, though many people groups integrate the beliefs and practices of animistic cults with Catholicism.

Today, MAF Ecuador operates a fleet of three Cessna 206 aircraft, with 24 staff, serving 36 partners. In recent years, MAF has been working closely with its sister organisation, Alas de Socorro del Ecuador (ADSE), to find solutions for sustainable Ecuadorian operations.