Aboriginal communities are scattered across vast regions of northern Australia. Reaching them by road is tough—but nearly all communities have airstrips.
Travel can be time-consuming, stressful, and outrageously expensive. So many teams forego crucial trips—slowing Bible translation, literacy efforts, and humanitarian aid.
YAJASI, our aviation partner in Indonesia, is facing heavy maintenance work, high fuel costs, and even fuel shortages. But switching to turbine-powered planes would change their situation entirely.
In recent years, aviation-grade gasoline has skyrocketed in price and disappeared from many areas of the world—drastically hindering several JAARS-supported aviation programs.
