Far Away in the Sky: A Memoir of the Biafran Airlift
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Some were paid. Some felt compelled by a duty to God. Some
volunteered. Some died doing it. All flew on rickety old aircraft
into a nighttime, wartime patch of African forest called Biafra.
Far Away in the Sky gives the personal account of one of them, a
young American volunteer who joined the largest civilian
humanitarian relief airlift ever attempted. In 1968 millions of
people, mostly children, were starving due to a military blockade
of Biafra, the former Eastern Region of Nigeria. The World Council
of Churches and Caritas International mounted a relief airlift.
Flying at night to avoid Nigerian MiGs, without radar or any modern
navigational aids, landing amid bombs on a stretch of road in the
rain forest, the old planes delivered thousands of tons of food and
medicines. UNICEF recruited six former United States Peace Corps
Volunteers, including the author, to help unload the planes. The
former volunteers had served in Nigeria and were familiar with the
area and the people. To David Koren the people of Biafra, his
former students and fellow teachers, constituted his motive for
joining the airlift. Sometimes after unloading our planes in the
dark, we evacuated children in the final stages of starvation. One
boy, lying limp on a mat near the plane, looked up at me in the
gloom and said, 'My father, why don't you speak to me? Don't you
know me?' As he was about to pass into eternity he felt that no one
- not his father, not God, no one - knew who he was. He survived.
He grew up to be a successful adult. He has a name. Nearly a half a
century later, because I wrote Far Away in the Sky, I learned his
name. Now I want you to know his name. More than the story of a
daring humanitarian rescue, this book reveals the astonishing
future of the rescued children and their descendants.
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