Three Massachusett nurses recently flew to Port-au-Prince for a weeklong stint helping victims of last January’s earthquake. They all work together on the hospital’s orthopedic floor, where they tend to patients with limb injuries. They will return with three more of their colleagues for a second stint in September as well.
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Click here to read the September edition of the Mercy Ships Alumni Newsletter!
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“I have always wanted to use my nursing skills in charity work for as long as I can remember,” says Aseye Badu, a nurse from Mt Waverley in Melbourne, home after three months of voluntary work on the world’s largest charity hospital ship in Togo, West Africa. But the time was more special than that for Aseye.
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It never occurred to Michiel that he would have the opportunity to directly change people's lives . “I had this thought about a year ago that I was going to come to Africa and teach. But I'm not a teacher at all. It wasn't until I got here that I realized how that idea would materialize.” Health care may be the main purpose of Mercy Ships, but Michiel is a superb example of how Mercy Ships makes a difference in people's lives outside of the hospital – through capacity building.
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We ask a few of our Alumni how serving with Mercy Ships have impacted their lives and/or their career choices upon their return home. Here are some of the responses we got.
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Four Hutt Valley nurses recently swapped the comforts of home for the confines of a hospital ship, bringing emergency care to some of the world’s poorest people. Rhona JasonSmith, Pat Sarginson, Becky Martin and Julie-Ann Vengua travelled at their own expense to West Africa to volunteer their skills and time. In Togo they met another Hutt nurse, Alison Brieseman, who for the past three years has managed the Mercy Ships operating theatres, delivering free surgeries on the world’s largest nongovernmental hospital ship.
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As part of their celebration of 20 years of shipbuilding and offshore software innovation, ShipConstructors Software Inc. (SSI) of Victoria, BC, dunked their managers at a staff and family day in mid-July, giving the proceeds to Mercy Ships.
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Click here to read the August 2010 edition of the Mercy Ships Alumni newsletter.
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A recent gift to Mercy Ships will go a long way in providing information to the people of West Africa about battling malnutrition and reducing the occurrence of HIV/AIDS. Health for Life Bibles have previously been printed in English, but the new Guide de la Vie (Life Guide) represents the very first French language health Bible to be published.
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Twice a week or so the sounds of African drums and joyful singing waft up the stairwells from the hospital on third deck...
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BRENDA Cole, 46, swapped Britain for the experience of a lifetime when she and her family moved on board a hospital ship off the coast of Africa.
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A group of nine teenagers from the Kinsale area is embarking on a Round Ireland Challenge in aid of the world's largest charity hospital ship.
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Nerida, of Mona Vale in Sydney, is in her second year out of medical school and working as a resident doctor in the region from Taree to Belmont. She took a month’s leave to join more than 450 volunteers from around the world on Mercy Ships Africa Mercy, providing free medical and development services to people in the poorest countries of the world.
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“We could cry all day because we go back to the same misery. We have no more hope .” These are the heart-wrenching words of a few despairing women, who came to the Africa Mercy for vaginal vesicular fistula (VVF) surgery. Not all surgeries are successful. At times, several procedures may be required to repair the injury, and sometimes there is nothing else that can be done. These women were preparing to return to their homes as they came, with no money, no hope, and constant urine leakage.
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It has been said that if a person truly loves his job, he would be willing to do it for free. If this is true, Tom Elmer loves his job 600 times over.
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Melissa Davey compiled a list of things that makes her job on the Africa Mercy so unique...
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Carol Tanzola lay in bed, wishing her life would end. Just 30 years old, her existence was a never-ending struggle, full of strife and anguish, both physical and personal.
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One occasion she remembers well. We had a four-month-old child being prepared for surgery to correct a cleft palate. Such children are always hard to feed, and often need to be put onto a special feeding program to fatten them up before surgery. This child developed breathing problems and needed to go on life support...
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Click here to read the Mercy Ships Alumni July 2010 Newsletter
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Twenty four-year-old Serge Medeho is proud to stand among his classmates at the Food for Life graduation. He displays unusual maturity and determination. He has worked extremely hard for 4 long months, and today he will stand with his 19 classmates to commemorate the completion of the program. He simply says, Now, I am looking ahead , and I am ready to return home and use what I have learned. I hope to get a large plot of land to practice my biological agriculture.
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