ALUMNI HAPPENINGS!
Alumni submitted reports about reunions and get together events in their part of the world.
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A Story of Transformation
One day, a radio jingle announced the arrival of Mercy Ships to assess people for surgery. Abdul and his father stood in line for an exhausting three days to be seen. It was worth every second when Abdul was accepted for treatment. “The joy I felt was so overwhelming that I lost my appetite to eat until I arrived at Mercy Ships,” he remembered with a flush of excitement.
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Alumni Book Club
We are excited to tell you about some Mercy Ships Alumni who have written books about their experiences or their insights into the human condition. So come on, let's support them and read!
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Robin Newsam - Custodian of Information
Although some of the roles Robin has served in over the past seven years have been more challenging than others, it is the community life onboard that has continued to sustain him. “These things have all been part of the story of my life. Living in this community, its stories have become part of my life story.” Robin says.
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Alumni Newsletter January 2012
Calling all Mercy Ships Alumni! To read the January 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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Palliative Care
The Mercy Ships Palliative Care Program was initiated after crew member Ann Giles identified a need to offer continuing care to people with inoperable tumors. Now in its tenth year, the program sends nurses into the community to offer pain relief, wound care, counseling and support to these patients.
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A Journey Of Faith
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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Alumni Newsletter December 2011
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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Africa Mercy Delighted By Royal Visitor
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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Dan Bergman
"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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The Housekeeping Team
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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Alumni Newsletter November 2011
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
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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New Orleans doctor and nurse volunteer on Mercy Ships’ life-saving floating hospital
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
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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Alumni Newsletter October 2011
Calling all Mercy Ships Alumni! To read the October edition of 'The Ships Bell', the Mercy Ships Alumni newsletter, click here!
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Captain plots charity mercy dash
MIKE Hughes may have saltwater in his veins, but it is the plight of Third World countries that fills his heart. He has spent a lifetime at sea, but says it feels like it was all preparing him for one thing – working with the Mercy Ships charity, skippering its boats in foreign ports. The Welshman, known affectionately as Captain Mike, is just home from a four-week stint as relieving master of the world's largest charity hospital ship, the Africa Mercy, docked in the Sierra Leone capital Freetown.
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Faith, Kindness and Care Aboard the Africa Mercy
For the past three years, Alainie Costas, a nurse in the Mass General Hospital plastic surgery and burn unit, has been involved on an epic journey of health, hope and faith.
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Whitby nurse volunteers on hospital ship in Africa
A Whitby, Canada native has her sea legs after spending six weeks working as an operating room nurse on a hospital ship in Africa.
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