Imagine... a land where the terrain is so challenging that most communities are not accessible by road, and some areas are so remote that new people groups who have had no contact with civilization are still being discovered. Many villages have no school, no clinic and no church. Consequently a lot of communities are illiterate, have child mortality rates above 50% and no hope of Life in Jesus. These desperate people are the target focus of Hope On Wings Foundation.

In 1995, Jack Sample and family were living in a remote village located 240 miles up the mighty Sepik River from the end of the Sepik Highway, a dirt track that stretched 100 miles from the coastal town of Wewak, Papua New Guinea. A request came from a village that was located farther inland, a journey of about a day and a half from their home. Jack and his son made the trip, by canoe and by foot to this village of Montopai. The concern of the village elders was that they very much wanted educational and medical help for their village. Child mortality rate was very high due to the fact that there was no help when their women were giving birth and no help for the many endemic diseases that plague the swamp lands. They wanted this help so badly that for the past several years they had labored by hand with axes, sticks, spades and large leaves for carrying dirt, to carve out a 2000 foot by 200 foot wide airstrip from the jungle.

This incredible feat was fueled by hope and belief that if they built the strip, airplanes would come, bringing the desired services that wouldallow them both medical and educational help but also transport for commodities they might grow for economic gain. Now that the strip was completed, and had been for several years, they were desperate to find someone who would validate their hopes.

The sad part of this story... that moves Jack and his son Ray to tears is that, to date, there has never been an airplane land on that airstrip at Montopai. Nor on the one at Tipas which they personally helped to build in 1996. Many other villages that had some service at one time have not seen an airplane in 5 years or more.

This is a common story in Papua New Guinea and for this reason Hope On Wings Foundation was born. There are many health workers and teachers among their own countrymen who are willing to respond to a call to one of these villages if they could find a feasible way to get there and some level of regular service to support them while there. Alas, the only way to reach a village such as Montopai, other than by air is to find a way to traverse hundreds of miles of jungle, swamp and rivers. A dependable air service is the only answer to this need. click here for more about Hope On Wings Foundation

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Rubina's Broken Leg

(Miraculous story of a girl with infected compound fracture who waited over 12 months for an airplane)
Rubina is a normal active girl around 12 years old. I say around 12 because she like many people in remote villages in Papua New Guinea does not know her birth date or exactly how old she is. About 12 months before, Rubina fell in the bush and sustained a nasty compound fracture of her lower left leg. She lay there for a while sobbing with the pain and feeling very frightened about not being able to move her right leg... click here to read more

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The Problem:

• Terrain making roads impossible
• Villages so remote some recently discovered
• No services to many remote village
• Shrinking air service so many remote villages with a strip haven't seen a plane in years
• Illiterate people with child mortality rate as high as 60%
• Willing workers with no way to get to villages in need
• No communications with remote villages

The Solution.

• Air transport brings in the key volunteer workers
• Air service supports workers and brings hope of economic change
• Air transport makes possible village agriculture for economic gain
• Air service brings education
• Air service brings nurses and education that lowers child mortality rate to 5%

Man's extremity is God's opportunity.

What will you do?

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