In 1972 Mercy Airlift was in Africa providing daily flights feeding the starving people of Ethiopia.  We were there for more than 2 years feeding the people in Africa at the feeding stations in remote parts of the country.  Mercy Airlift provided assistance in 1976 to victims of the massive earthquake, which killed more than 30,000 people in Guatemala.  During the tsunami in Asia in 2004, Mercy Airlift provided foods, clothing, water drilling equipment, medicines and volunteers to assist in the recovery efforts.  Mercy Airlift provided medical equipment, medicines, foods and rebuilding equipment to victims of hurricanes Katrina and Rita in the United States.  Of these disasters, thousands were lost, yet many were saved because of the efforts or Mercy Airlift and the volunteers of Mercy Airlift. 

Mercy Airlift has helped thousands upon thousands of people in life threatening situations by courageous volunteers of Mercy Airlift in countries like Ethiopia, El Salvador, Guatemala, Congo, Nicaragua, Peru, Philippines, and Tongan Islands. Uganda and Zimbabwe, as well as people in North America including Mexico, the United States and Canada.

Mercy Airlift was founded in 1968 as a disaster relief and humanitarian aid organization providing immediate response to natural and man-made disasters and complex emergencies around the world.  Mercy Airlift provides transportation of emergency foods, medical supplies and medicines, equipment and supplies needed for recovery of natural disasters and emergencies.  Mercy Airlift also provides volunteers to assist in recovery and provides transportation and logistical services to other humanitarian organizations.  Mercy Airlift provides warehousing and distribution of emergency supplies to other humanitarian organizations.

In providing air and ground transportation as well as warehousing for other humanitarian organizations, Mercy Airlift is able to dispatch loaded aircraft to disaster sites as soon as the needs are measured and understood, thereby assisting other humanitarian agencies and volunteers.  Mercy Airlift has delivered millions of pounds of supplies, medicines, foods, and emergency equipment to disaster locations throughout the world.     We transport materials such as wheat, rice, water, water purification equipment, sanitary supplies, vaccines, clothing, blankets, tents, and temporary housing materials as well as heavy equipment and machinery.

1. Who is Mercy Airlift?

Mercy Airlift has provided humanitarian aid, disaster relief and logistical services to people who have been devastated by natural disasters, complex emergencies and those born into extreme poverty since 1968.

2. What Mercy Airlift does.

Mercy Airlift acquires, collects, warehouses foods, medicines, relief supplies and medical equipment for distribution during times of natural or man-made disasters and emergencies worldwide. Mercy Airlift provides disaster relief teams as well as medical teams to areas of extreme poverty and to areas of natural and/or man-made disasters.  Mercy Airlift provides humanitarian aid through Mercy Airlift volunteers and other volunteer organizations.

3. Mercy Airlift has provided humanitarian aid in the following countries.

Ethiopia, Guatemala, Kinshasa, Congo, Mexico, Mozambique, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Philippines,  Sudan, Nigeria, and various American Indian Reservations throughout the United States.

4. How does Mercy Airlift received the supplies and equipment needed for distribution during times of disasters and emergencies?

Mercy Airlift receives supplies from different pharmaceutical companies, hospitals, food companies, manufacturers and suppliers of goods and equipment needed for relief in disasters and humanitarian relief.  Companies and organizations as well as our corporate and individual donors assist in the financial burden of warehousing and transporting these supplies to the disaster sites. 

5. Do the supplies need to be stored for emergencies?

All collected supplies are picked up, inventoried and warehoused in our warehouses until such time as the supplies are needed.  When supplies are shipped out to different sites, our warehouses are replenished with additional supplies and readied for shipment. 

6. Knowing what materials and supplies are needed at different disasters.

At the first notice of a disaster, personnel at the locations or near the disaster areas are usually able to let us know what type of disaster has occurred, and what the extent or the damage is.  Word continually flows to us as the hours press on and it is clearer as to what the exact needs are.  Mercy Airlift is already in the planning stages and is aware of the types of supplies needed to meet the disaster.  Mercy Airlift is in total Operational Mode at this point continuing to receive updated information from the field and from the first responders and Mercy Airlift is then securing the supplies from our warehouses or we are securing supplies from additional suppliers. 

7. How are the goods and supplies delivered by Mercy Airlift

Mercy Airlift will transport the supplies via its own aircraft or will contract with other air carriers for the transportation of the supplies.  Mercy Airlift will also engage the services of vessel transporters when the conditions warrant.

8. How does Mercy Airlift transport medical and relief personnel?

Medical and relief personnel as well as general volunteers have been transported by Mercy Airlift and will continue to be transported to areas in need.  First responder teams are also sent out via Mercy Airlift equipment or by commercial means to assess the conditions at the disaster site.

9. Mercy Airlift works closely with other humanitarian organizations such as African Enterprise, Disaster Relief Foundation, Feed the Children. World Vision as well as may other humanitarian organizations.  Mercy Airlift also provides complete warehousing facilities for other organizations.  Mercy Airlift will assist other disaster relief and humanitarian organizations in their transportation needs. 

10. How is Mercy Airlift funded.

Mercy Airlift depends solely on individual donors and corporate donors for our ability to provide humanitarian aid and disaster services worldwide.  Financial donations are required to maintain our facilities, aircraft, insurance and other requirements to be ready to provide the services of humanitarian aid and disaster relief services.

11. How to support the vision and causes of Mercy Airlift.

By partnering with Mercy Airlift, you and/or your organization can assist us in providing assistance and comport to those in need.  Together we can bring comport, to those less fortunate.  We can provide disaster relief services to those who have lost everything and are in need of your assistance.  Financial assistance is vitally needed and it does make a difference to those in need.