Daily flights bring water, food and medicines and medevac the ill to hospitals.
The two UK relief and rescue teams working in the camp would not be able to coordinate relief efforts without the air support. If it wasn't for Air Serv, we'd have no support at all. In addition to the four aircraft already stationed in Mozambique, they rapidly moved additional planes and personnel from South Africa, Kenya, Lesotho, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Zimbabwe and the United States. World Food Programme asked for air support on February 15, and a Caravan from South Africa was quickly put into service, flying from a short strip of paved road into the flood zone. Air Serv helicopter pilot Mark Jackson and mechanic Tony Merber, from South Africa, flew initial rescue efforts during the first days of flooding, saving as many as 60 people in one day.