Boeing and Ethiopian Airlines have again partnered to bring humanitarian aid across Africa. The airline’s new 737-8 airplanes will be used to transport more than 12,000 pounds of supplies to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The humanitarian delivery flights departed Boeing’s Everett and Seattle Delivery Centers on November 24 and 26.
“Ethiopian Airlines has a long history of collaborating with Boeing on humanitarian flights.”
Mesfin Tasew, Group CEO of Ethiopian Airlines
Global Ethiopian Diaspora Action Group (GEDAG) provided surgical gloves, which will be distributed by the Ethiopian Ministry of Health’s Pharmaceutical Supply Agency.
Noble Humanitarian Missions (NHM) provided surgical gloves. Mekedonia, an Ethiopian non-governmental organization working to shelter people experiencing homelessness, will lead local distribution efforts for the NHM donated supplies.
Open Hearts Big Dreams (OHBD), a Washington state-based nonprofit organization that works to increase literacy in Ethiopia, donated books and art supplies, which will be distributed by Project Mercy, an Ethiopian charitable organization serving women, children and families.
Ethiopian Institute of Resilience and Climate Change provided clothing, gloves and bandages, which will be distributed by its Ethiopian nonprofit partner, Wollo Bete Amhara.
Boeing’s Humanitarian Delivery Flight Program was launched in 1992 as a collaboration between the company and its customers to help transport humanitarian aid supplies on newly delivered airplanes with otherwise empty cargo holds. To date, there have been more than 200 humanitarian delivery flights. More than 1.7 million pounds of critical supplies have been delivered since the program’s inception.
