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An average of three flights per week deliver
goods to various locations throughout the area, where
they are met on the ground by local volunteers.

cots to serve as quarantine quarters
in multigenerational households; ice
chests for the delivery of one to two
weeks' worth of food from distribution
centers; and personal care products.
Landing locations are determined
based on proximity to distribution
centers established by the Relief
Fund throughout the Navajo Nation
and Hopi Reservation. An average of
three flights per week deliver goods
to various locations throughout the
area, where they are met on the
ground by local volunteers. The cargo
is then unloaded and transported
to a nearby distribution center
where it is sanitized and packed
into pallets or kits for drive-through
pick up or, in the case of elder or

immunocompromised households,
home delivery.
While Air Serv has historically
operated outside the borders of the
United States, the pandemic has
created a domestic crisis for the
indigenous community that requires
quick and immediate action. Due to the
vastness of the territory, airplanes can
deliver, in a matter of hours, cargo that
may take one to two days by truck.
"This grant from the ISTAT Foundation
directly enables us to do what Air
Serv was designed for," said Air Serv
President Stu Willcuts, "which is to
bring aid where it's most needed."
The Navajo Nation/Hopi
Reservation Airlift Program is not
the first time the ISTAT Foundation

has directly supported a humanitarian
response through Air Serv International.
When the second wave of the Ebola
outbreak began in the Democratic
Republic of the Congo in 2018, an
ISTAT Foundation grant assisted in the
donation of flight services to deliver
medicine, medical equipment and
humanitarian personnel.
"We are extremely grateful to
the ISTAT Foundation and the ISTAT
community of over 5,000 members
in the commercial aviation industry
worldwide for the generosity they have
shown us over the last several years,"
Willcuts said. "We could not do what
we do without this assistance, and the
impact of their generosity is immediate
and direct."
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