Six years ago, I, Matt, and my fellow pilot Micha were in Karawura for a ceremony to lay the foundation stone for a future building.

Nicole works as a dentist/oral surgeon in eastern Switzerland. For two weeks, she swapped her practice to work in Madagascar.

Major parts of the helicopter have a shelf life (life cycle). At the end of this time period, these parts are either replaced or overhauled.

Small planes are cheaper to operate than helicopters. Per passenger, a plane is three times cheaper. That is why we use helicopters for...

Half the village stood laughing and in amazement around the two white men who were trying to pump drinking water from a dirty bucket...

Ernie Tanner writes: Carrying supplies in the great heat to the people starving in the camps at the edge of the Ethiopian Danakil desert...

Mmmm! A recipe for international interested people! Enjoy it!

Christmas is celebrated very differently around the world.

Around half of the airstrips in the bush have been opened with the help of Helimission. Several flights with the helicopter are necessary...

There is a large rainforest at the eastern end of the island of Madagascar. During our medical mission a while ago ...

Der Stiftungsrat der Helimission ehrte an der Sitzung vom 5. November 2024 in Trogen Ernst Tanner als Ehrenpräsident und Hedi Tanner ...

An intercom system in a helicopter is an independent communication network.

Here in Papua, Indonesia, you can quickly go from one extreme to the other. 

I spent 5 days with Sedera and his team in the east and south-east of the rainforest.

A while ago, I was assigned a flight to take a delegation to a church conference in Yalmeby, picking up a patient in Urop on the way back. 

It was Friday afternoon when we heard about a young man who had been shot.

Recently we had a request from the government to fly a team of seven people into a village in order to issue the villagers some official ...

Exceptionally heavy rains caused a dam in Sikkim, in the North of India, to burst.

During our week-long mission with medical teams from the hospital in Mandritsara, we flew to several villages.

Earthquakes and cyclones hit the Philippines time and again. However, the Filipinos never seem to lose their cheerful nature.