All posts in: "Disaster response"

  1. 2014 – Crop spraying – more food in a famine

    UN regional assessments indicate that the most likely disasters across Southern Africa are famines.  Crop spraying helps produce more food. What can helicopters do in…

  2. i-Pad App for better disaster mapping

    i Pad App A new i-Pad App was a lesson from the 2013 floods.  Wings Like Eagles wants to improve disaster response.  We needed a…

  3. The DROP Logger is born – 2013

    There are little disasters and big disasters. We try to respond to both. In the smaller disasters we deploy a ground coordinator. The 2013 floods…

  4. Flood relief video – Mozambique 2013

    Flood relief in Mozambique by Wings Like Eagles in 2013 We hope you enjoy our flood relief video of the assistance we delivered in Mozambique…

  5. 2013 – Thanks for the aid – both ways!

    We needed a good aid team to deliver help in 2013. Thanks for the aid! Here, a volunteer and our trustee Clive Langmead thanks Manuel…

  6. 2013 – Disaster surveys we did

    Surveys proved to be our main tasking. Are surveys important? It sounds unglamorous to some.  But surveys are a key part of what we call…

  7. 2013 – Aid cargo we delivered

    Aid Cargo – what is it? This photograph is an example of the sort of aid cargo we fly to people affected by disasters. If…

  8. Our ally in Mozambique – Sergio Ido!

    In Mozambique we have a key ally, Sergio Ido. He has been a friend of ours since 2007. In 2013 he was Wings Like Eagles’…

  9. The 2013 disaster response team assembles

    This is our disaster response team getting together. Clive Langmead (a Wings Trustee) meets Andrew Shipton (our helicopter pilot) to take the helicopter to Mozambique…

  10. Aid pilot Andrew Shipton – our helicopter pilot!

    Aid pilot Andrew Shipton is a fantastic part of our team.  He was our pilot for our 2013 flood response. Andrew Shipton is a current…