Aid comes from the air in Malawi
Created: 12/21/2021, 09:39 AM
By: Dorit Caspary
The drone project was launched in Malawi in 2017, and the air transporters will soon be delivering vaccines to every corner of Malawi.
© Unicef
The University of Science and Technology in Thyolo in southern Malawi is a stepping stone into the future.
Because this is where the ADDA (African Drone and Data Academy) pilot project, financed by Unicef, is located.
Students learn and work with the cargo drones from the German company Wingcopter.
The drone manufacturers have been active in Malawi since 2017.
Above all, it is about supplying remote regions with medicines quickly and efficiently.
Or to collect data in order to use help in a more targeted manner.
Better predictions can be made in the event of natural disasters.
From 2022, the Covid vaccines in Malawi will also be transported with the German drones.
At the university, the prospective specialists learn the theoretical background, but also very practically how to control a drone, assemble it and take it apart again.
Christmas campaign for Münchner Tafel and Unicef: Long-term help
When the first drone took off on a test flight in Lilongwe, capital of Malawi, in 2016, it was the first flight corridor ever opened to improve humanitarian aid in remote regions.
In the meantime, loads weighing up to six kilograms are transported at 150 kilometers per hour.
No airplane or car can deliver faster.
Experts from all over the world come to test their drones in Malawi's flight corridor.
In addition, 16 students per year are trained as drone experts, eight of them from Malawi.
Phumzile (21).
“All of us here at university have one goal: to create a better world for everyone.
Projects like the one with drones help us here. ”Only then can it be sustainable.
Together against poverty: this is how you can donate
With your donation - no matter how small - you support the tz aid campaign Together against Poverty for the Münchner Tafel and Unicef. Specifically, the proceeds go to families in Munich who, despite their best efforts, are dependent on help - and to children in Malawi who neither have enough to eat nor can go to school after the flood and drought. Together with our partners and you, dear readers, we would like to help right on our doorstep. And we want to support people in Malawi, one of the poorest countries in the world. Because poverty can affect everyone. No matter where.
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tz editor Dorit Caspary
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You can reach our reporter on Tel. 089 / 5306-512 or by email at dorit.caspary@merkurtz.de.
Donation examples
Only 78 euros are
enough to support a table guest with food for a whole year.
How you can easily become a host for Munich residents in need: www.muenchner-tafel.de
With 30 euros
, Unicef can provide an acutely malnourished child with life-saving peanut paste for a month.
