Miracle Flights for Kids
The mission of Miracle Flights for Kids is to improve access to health care by providing free air transportation to hospitals across America; to promote awareness of their services through targeted outreach programs; to enlist the help of community-minded people through strategic calls to action; to promote the spirit of volunteerism. Miracle Flights for Kids believes that all children have the right to be able to access the best medical care, no matter where the treatment is located, and no matter what the personal or financial situation of their families might be.
Miracle Flights for Kids Headquarters
2764 N. Green Valley Parkway #115
Green Valley, NV 89014
Phone: 702.261.0494
Toll Free: 800.FLY.1711
Fax: 702.261.0497
Northwoods AirLifeLine
Northwoods AirLifeLine is a non-profit organization of volunteer pilots from Michigan 's Upper Peninsula and northeast Wisconsin who donate their time and aircraft to help patients and their families with urgent medical needs for services not found locally. Since their founding in 1989, about 1700 missions have been flown, all at no cost to the traveler. Northwoods AirLifeLine helps meet the needs of individuals who are financially distressed, unable to travel by other means, or under severe time constraints. The most urgent transports involve transplant cases, since the window of opportunity to perform the procedure is small. They receive transport requests from chronically ill people who cannot drive long distances or afford commercial flights to specialized medical facilities. They also transport individuals beyond medical help who want only to be taken home to be with their families, a service not covered by insurance. Relatives of severely injured patients transferred out of area may themselves need immediate transportation to be with their loved ones.
Northwoods AirLifeLine
P.O. Box 2973
Kingsford, MI 49802-2973
Toll free: 800.311.1760
info@northwoodsairlifeline.org
Orbis
Orbis is dedicated to the prevention of blindness, the saving of sight, the delivery of training, the transfer of skills, and the creation of a world where quality eye care, education and treatment are available to every human being. ORBIS is a non-aligned, non-profit global development organization. Our mission is to preserve and restore sight by strengthening the capacity of local partners to prevent and treat blindness.
ORBIS International Headquarters
520 8th Avenue, 11th Floor
New York, NY 10018
Phone: 646.674.5500
Fax: 646.674.5599
SouthWings
Founded in 1996, SouthWings is a non-profit, conservation-minded aviation service committed to protecting the environment and conserving land and natural resources. Its mission is to use flight in advocacy for sustainable solutions to restore and to protect the ecosystems and biodiversity in the southeast. It uses GPS navigation equipment to locate and document threatened natural areas and resources and to pinpoint and inspect important lands worthy of conservation protection. It achieves compelling results by cooperating and coordinating with organizations conducting public policy, research and advocacy work to protect landscapes, historical landmarks and biological diversity. It combines conservation knowledge and professionalism with piloting skills. SouthWings collaborates with over 250 organizations and logs over 300 flight hours per year to educate civic, media and political leaders and to collect scientific data of vital ecosystems, forests, wetlands and riparian areas, and special habitats in the south.
SouthWings Inc.
35 Haywood Street
Suite 201
Asheville, NC 28801
Phone: 828.225.5949
Fax: 828.225.7562
Volunteer Pilots Association
The Volunteer Pilots Association is a charitable non-profit organization providing air transportation to needy people who must travel to obtain medical treatment. The member pilots, flying privately owned general aviation aircraft, donate their time and flight expenses. They also transport donor organs and other time-critical medically related items. They can transport patients who do not require medical attention during their flight and who can enter and exit the aircraft with only limited assistance.
Volunteer Pilots Association
P.O. Box 471
Bridgeville, PA 15017
Phone: 412.221.1374
Fax: 412.221.1374
Veterans Airlift Command
The Veterans Airlift Command provides free air transportation to wounded warriors, veterans and their families for medical and other compassionate purposes through a national network of volunteer aircraft owners and pilots.
Veterans Airlift Command
5775 Wayzata Boulevard, Suite 700
St. Louis Park, MN 55416
Phone: 952.582.2911
Wings of Hope
The mission of Wings of Hope is to save lives, improve the quality of life and bring hope to people around the world where the utilization of aviation is vital to the accomplishment of these human endeavors. Staffed by over 300 skilled executives, pilots, mechanics and administrative personnel, Wings of Hope provides over 100,000 man-hours of volunteer work each year. Wings of Hope combats malnutrition, disease and harsh living conditions in remote areas of the world. In places where the terrain is rugged, roads impassable and travel by boat or oxen is too slow, an airplane from Wings of Hope can transport ill and injured people quickly and safely to clinics and hospitals. Wings of Hope can also easily and quickly transport medical supplies and services, teachers, development technicians, missionaries, food, seeds and breeding stock.
Wings of Hope
18370 Wings of Hope Blvd.
St. Louis, MO 63005
Toll free: 800.448.9487
Wings of Mercy
Wings of Mercy provides free air transportation for people with limited financial means who need treatment at distant medical facilities. Since 1991 the charity has grown to include several chapters in the Midwest.
Wings of Mercy
10720 Adams Street
Holland, MI 49423
Phone: 616.396.1077
Toll free: 888.78.MERCY
Fax: 616.396.0650
