Each year as a Field Service comes to a close, Mercy Ships holds an event to show our gratitude for our host country that provides us with countless resources while we are serving their country. The event honors and thanks them for allowing us to call their nation “home” for 10 months. On November 23, 2011, Mercy Ships hosted a Thank You Reception for its partners in Sierra Leone.
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When the Mercy Ships Eye Team arrives at Kissy U.M.C. Eye Hospital in Freetown, Sierra Leone, they are met by over 300 people waiting outside the gates. These people have come from all over the country and beyond, hoping to receive treatment for various eye conditions. Many of them have slept outside the previous night to keep their place in line.
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Shortly after he finished Bible school, Peter had a dream in which he received a letter that he couldn’t decipher. “I gave it to a man of God and said, ‘I can’t understand this. Please read it for me,’” Peter says. “He read it to me, and it said I must begin planting churches in Benin and then continue outside of the country.” When Peter woke up, he remembered that the letter had instructed him to build churches in other African nations, but he couldn’t remember which countries were named.
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Since Alberta was eighteen months old, Mariah has raised her, allowing the child’s young mother to finish her education. Three years ago, Mariah was cooking over an open fire in front of her Liberian home when Alberta awoke from her nap. Still groggy from sleep, the little girl walked too close to the fire, falling near the cooking oil. It splashed over her left arm and leg, up her back and over the back of her head. The fire quickly followed. The little girl’s left arm was terribly burned, immobilizing its position at her side. Her leg, back and the back of her head were also severely burned and scarred.
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Calling all Mercy Ships Alumni! To read the December edition of 'The Ships Bell', the Mercy Ships Alumni newsletter, filled with exciting news pertaining to Mercy Ships and our extraordinary Alumni, click here!
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Institutional Development Officer, Mark Wright, discusses the brand new strategic partnership between Mercy Ships and Rotary International.
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The Africa Mercy, a charity-funded hospital ship docked in Sierra Leone, provides the most sophisticated medical facility in the region.
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“It looked like a bomb went off behind her house.” That was how Mercy Team co-leader Lee Hinrichsen described Mickey Eason’s backyard. Large tree branches, twisted metal, a porch torn off the house, a smashed shed, along with miscellaneous trash, all were reminders of Hurricane Ike’s destructive force.
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New Zealander, Glenys Gillingham, who works as a nurse onboard the hospital ship was thrilled to meet the Princess Royal during her recent visit to the Africa Mercy while in Sierra Leone recently as part of her tour of the West African country.
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"I’m digging it!” said Nurse Dan Bergman about his life as a volunteer on the hospital ship, the Africa Mercy. Originally from California, but most recently from Colorado, his varied medical experience dates back to 1995. As an emergency medic, paramedic, and emergency helicopter flight nurse, he has been involved with critical care for sixteen years. He served in Special Services in the U.S. Army for 15 years and has been a nurse for the past ten years.
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Meet the team responsible for maintaining a clean and healthy environment throughout the six decks, 26 public bathrooms, 37 offices... and every publicly-used floor, window, carpet and railing on the largest non-governmental hospital ship in the world.
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Calling all Mercy Ships Alumni! To read the November edition of 'The Ships Bell', the Mercy Ships Alumni newsletter, filled with exciting news pertaining to Mercy Ships and our extraordinary Alumni, click here!
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Blessing Sonni is a very courageous young girl from Liberia. In 2008, when she was eight years old, she took a fall at school and damaged her knee cap. When the knee began to swell and fester, she was taken to a local clinic for treatment – but without a positive result. The infection became so severe that her face swelled, looking as if she had been horribly burned. Blessing and her mother appeared at the Mercy Ships gate, hoping they could get medical help.
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Fatmata sat quietly in the Admissions tent cuddling her sixteen-month-old daughter in her lap. She had been searching for over a year for someone to give her some hope that little Sidiatu might have a normal life.
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Nicole Breitenfeldt, aged 34, a trainee plastic surgeon, has been treating injured people in impoverished Sierra Leone on board the world’s largest charity hospital ship.
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Dr. Peter Meade, a surgeon on the training faculty of Tulane University Medical Center and LSU Health Sciences Center, and Mary Jackson, who works as an ER nurse at Interim LSU Public Hospital performed surgery in a floating hospital that serves some of the poorest people in the world.
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Ingrid Marais, an optometrist from South Africa, has completed a month with the Eye Team onboard the Africa Mercy, learning systems training to process patients more efficiently. She works at a small clinic in St. Johnsbury, Grahamtown, in South Africa's Eastern Cape Province – about an hour away from their nearest ophthalmologist. “I’m surprised you’re so well- organized. Everyone knows what to do. In not too long, our system will be as smooth as the Mercy Ships one,” she declared.
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For seventeen years, people laughed at her and mocked her because of her legs – horribly misshapen and knock-kneed. The constant verbal abuse made her feel ashamed. Walking was difficult and tiring, so she didn’t go to school. She just stayed at home in her misery. A free surgery revolutionized the life of this young woman and changed her life forever!
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Mercy Ships is proud to announce a three-year strategic partnership with Rotary International beginning in Fall 2011. The two organizations have a history of working together on an international scale to positively impact health care in developing nations.
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