Advocacy

Relief ...

With the onset of global warming there is evidence to suggest global extreme weather events are increasing in frequency. Certainly areas which have never experience extreme rainfall are being flooded for the first time, and areas prone to floods are at greater risk than ever before. Flooding is a major global relief issue - particularly when in conjunction with Cyclones or Hurricanes which destroy shelter and infrastructure.

Hovercraft are particularly useful in flood relief work as they can operate over any water surface regardless of what is submerged beneath. They can travel over mud, and move over short stretches of land between flooded areas.

It is likley that at some point in the future hovercraft will be regularly used in flood relief because, quite simply, they are the right vehicle to use.

HoverAid aims to standardise the use of hovercraft in flood relief situations as soon as possible by presenting the arguments in favour of using hovercraft in such situations to major aid and relief organisations.

... and Development

Marginalised populations living in areas prone to seasonal flooding, or in swamps or mangroves, wetlands, or in areas where rivers which are unavigable by conventional boats provide a potential but unexploited transport route are by their very situation unlikley to make it into the headlines.

In some cases due to their remoteness these communities live beyond the radar of much of the aid and development community too.

In this age where travel to distant shores and continents has become almost mundane it is wrong that those who live in the more difficult to reach parts of our shared planet should be overlooked and ignored.

HoverAid aims to bring these populations to the attention of the aid and development sector, and argue that by using hovercraft regions that were deemed inaccessible need no longer be considered so.