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. 

A while ago, I spent three-months in Madagascar. I worked with a French organization in a dispensary near the capital Antananarivo. 

A helicopter is a very special aircraft. It can hover in the air, fly backward, and even move sideways. But how was the helicopter invented?

The hospital in Mandritsara in the North of Madagascar has been making a valuable contribution to the well-being of the people.

Once again, we had an assignment with the HVM Hospital in Mandritsara.

A while ago we received a flight request to a new area called Uesumba. This little village is located near Wana, a few miles from Padalempe.