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UAVaid's latest developments and activities.

UAVaid Makes First Ever Medical Drone Delivery In Sierra Leone

22 Nov, 2021

UAVAID Supports Healthcare Programme With First Ever Medical Drone Delivery In Sierra Leone. 19th November 2021 saw the first ever delivery of medicines by drone in Sierra Leone.  This was a collaboration between UK based drone specialist, UAVaid, and the Sierra...

UPDATE: COVID19 PANDEMIC

27 Apr, 2021

Our thoughts and condolences go out to all those who have lost loved one's or friend's due to the coronavirus pandemic currently spreading across the globe. In addition to the tragic loss of life, the true scale of the economic and social impacts are unlikely to be...

UAVaid Honoured with Royal Aeronautical Society Award

3 Dec, 2020

UAVaid are delighted to announce they have been honoured by the Royal Aeronautical Society with the 2020 Team Specialist Award for; "Demonstrating outstanding sector leadership and technical achievement in the field of Unmanned Aviation in Humanitarian and Development...

UAVAid and Halkin Group sign MOU for Kenya COVID Response

26 Jun, 2020

UAVAid and Halkin Group have signed an MOU to support Kenya COVID recovery with ‘drones’ for national Healthcare and Economic Development UAVaid, one of the UK’s leading developers of specialist ‘drone’ technology, has signed an agreement with Halkin Group, paving the...

DFID Publishes UAVaid Multi-Role Case Study

6 Feb, 2020

Today, Frontier Technology Livestreaming, on behalf of Department for International Development (DFID) has published their case study of the A LONG DISTANCE UAV FOR MULTI-ROLE HUMANITARIAN RESPONSE programme, which culminated in the hugely successful UAVaid Hansard...

UAVaid Awarded UKRI Research Grant

26 Nov, 2019

UAVaid, in collaboration with Archangel Imaging are today delighted to announce their award of a research grant from UKRI for Collaborative integration of AI and high endurance UAV for Automated Energy Infrastructure Monitoring. The project will conduct research into...

UAVaid Completes Drone Medical Delivery In Malawi

19 Aug, 2019

As part of a FTL/DFID project in Africa, UAVaid successfully integrated the Hansard UAV into the medical supply chain for deliveries to a remote clinic in western Malawi. Using its parachute-delivery system, the drone delivered over 5kg of needed medical supplies...

UAVaid Hosts FTL at Spanish UAV Demo Facility

3 Jul, 2019

In the readiness buildup to an upcoming deployment to Malawi, as part of a UK Government DFID Pilot Programme Contract, UAVAid was delighted to host members of the Frontier Technology Livestreaming (FTL) team for a live demonstration of the Hansard system. The...

UAVaid Deploys To Malawi

26 Nov, 2018

UAVAid trial in Malawi. Kasungu. Demonstration of poor fuel supply from local suppliers.

UAVaid Supports Local Communities in Malawi

22 Nov, 2018

Kasungu, November 2018 During the recent visit to Malawi for UAV testing at the UNICEF drone corridor, co-founders Daniel Ronen and James Ronen made donations, on behalf of UAVAid, of a range of goods to support education and childhood welfare in the local Kasungu...