Flood Relief

This was sent to us to encourage us in our work, a great shot and a great story.

This was taken at Boure in the Oro Province. These people have lost all their gardens in floods after a cyclone - no food for a fortnight until the day this was taken. The RAAF used Boure as a forward supply destination for cargo that was then shuttled out by MAF and small helicopters. The people had a meal when the first load of supplies arrived then enthusiastically unloaded Caribou and loaded helicopters and our Twin Otter, sweating in the hot sun all day - hard physical work as tonnes of supplies passed though this place. They kept this up all week - even till today when our Otter dropped a load of fresh vegetables for their community - their first fresh vegies (we had only done shuttles out of this place before today). As you can see from the photo, (remember they had just had their first real meal in a fortnight) they were fully engaged with our crew.
Enjoy...

Thanks to Tom Teal Sinclair for the report, and Richard Marples for the picture.