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Early intervention after a disaster should give reassurance to the affected; should rapidly allow the size of the crisis to be identified and better target the doctors, medicines and aid that help avoid post disaster diseases and more swiftly support the coping strategies and the dignity of those affected. |
| Wings Like Eagles offers a rapid response to disasters, coordinated with the national government and with aid agencies, to help arrest the immediate decline and quickly help target the right aid to the right people, minimizing the disaster impact. |
| As a local operator, Wings Like Eagles is committed to your safety. As a charity we plan to make helicopters available responsively for disasters and in the gaps between disasters we will keep our pilots skilled by flying commercially (through a trading company); and use any revenues to fund the disaster service and to invest in the local community and in disaster resilience. |
| Our Objects |
To relieve sickness and financial hardship and to promote and preserve good health by the provision of funds, goods or services of any kind including the provision of relief capability and community rebuilding programmes for people in disaster affected areas or countries through logistical resources advice and support services,
To advance education particularly in socially and otherwise disadvantaged communities;
To fulfil such other purposes which are exclusively charitable according to the law of England and Wales.
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Foundations |
Wings Like Eagles was founded out of a Biblical concern to listen to the desires of the afflicted (as written in the book of Isaiah). Christians, Moslems and Jews all accept the Old Testament writings. Jesus’ expressed wish was to bring good news to the poor and his picture of the Good Samaritan showed that this was regardless of race, colour or creed.
Wings Like Eagles will work in line with the principles in the Code of Conduct of the International Committee of the Red Cross and Red Crescent.
Wings Like Eagles has examined the national Poverty Reduction Strategies of the region, has examined the objectives of the EU and UN and seeks to integrate its effort with those who have been working long term to assist the nations grow and develop.
Wings Like Eagles notes the difficulties in achieving the world’s Millennium Development Goals and believes that frequent disasters inhibit the abilities of nations to help themselves and undermine the effectiveness of long term aid.
Wings Like Eagles has set a vision and a mission which are already attracting support.
Wings Like Eagles seeks to conduct logistics operations using helicopters which are accredited for safety with the UN and other fast responding organizations.
Wings Like Eagles seeks to be one of the first to respond to a nationally or UN recognized disaster, using its aircraft to provide access to the national government response teams, to the UN, to the major NGOs and the media.
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Who Agrees? |
In 2007, Kofi Annan said : ’The humanitarian impact of climate change is likely to be among the biggest humanitarian challenges in years and decades to come. Action so far has been slow and inadequate compared with needs.’
(Former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan quoted in a report for the new Global Humanitarian Forum (‘The Humanitarian Impact of Climate Change’, 22 September 2007).)Oxfam's briefing paper 108 says that we must deal with climate change, improve the global humanitarian system and reduce vulnerability; including increasing emergency aid, making it faster fairer and more appropriate, invest in disaster risk reduction, build local capacity, and do aid right. (The material on pages 11 and 16 to 18, from Oxfam Briefing Paper 108 titled 'Climate Alarm - Disasters increase as climate change bites' dated Nov 2007 is reproduced with the permission of Oxfam GB, Oxfam House, John Smith Drive, Cowley, Oxford OX4 2JY, UK www.oxfam.org.uk. Oxfam GB does not necessarily endorse any text or activities that accompany the materials.)
In 2006 the UK Secretary of State for International Development said “We need a better system to make sure that we have available and are able to draw upon quickly the logistics required
– for example – helicopters, ships and aircraft.”Wings Like Eagles aims to produce a responsive logistics contribution to the humanitarian impact of disasters.