Priority Freight of Whitfield gives coronavirus face masks including to Dover Outreach and Folkestone charities
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Updated: 12:28, 06 January 2021
A company has given 180,000 medical face masks, costing over £100,000, to help charities and organisations affected by the pandemic.
This is the largest ever charitable donation by the Dover logistics firm Priority Freight.
Neal Williams of Priority Freight, right,hands the masks to Noel Beamish of Dover Outreach. Picture: Priority Freight
The masks are being shipped and personally delivered by its staff to 30 groups across Bulgaria, Germany, Poland, Slovakia, Spain and the United Kingdom.
Locally the beneficiaries include the Beacon School, Rainbow Centre and Mission Aviation Fellowship in Folkestone and Dover Outreach Centre for the homeless.
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Two-day-old Barako saved in ‘miracle’ flight
Even though the number of flights MAF made in 2020 was reduced because of coronavirus, its planes were still able to bring hope, help and healing to 26 of the world’s poorest and most vulnerable nations.
Gary Clayton, Mission Aviation Fellowship (MAF) Baby Barako survives surgery at Kijabe Hospital, Kenya, thanks to a MAF flight. (Photo: Eddie Andersen)
In Kenya, where overland travel can be dangerous by day and treacherous at night, Pilot Daniel Loewen-Rudgers flew a baby boy from Dukana, on the Ethiopian border, to Kijabe Hospital, when the condition of the newborn became critical. According to Daniel: ‘It was a miracle we could fly to a good hospital like Kijabe during the pandemic.’
MAF gives youth chance to fly
Young people gather in front of the Cessna 206 after their first flight. From left, Jacob Paul, Helen Gwyn, Mark Fox (MAF), Ricky Baker, Alisha Daniels, Sam McNeil, Jemma Nawton and Rick Velvin (pilot).
Young people from Springboard Community Works got their first ever chance to fly in a light plane after a Mission Aviation Fellowship (MAF) Cessna 206 landed at Kaipara Flats Airfield this month.
The 40-year-old Cessna has been retired from international service with MAF and now visits airfields around New Zealand promoting the organisation’s work.
MAF New Zealand chief executive Mark Fox says someone had the nice idea to take local youth, who had perhaps experienced tough times, for a scenic flight while the plane was in Kaipara.
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