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Alumni Newsletter July 2011
Click here to read the July issue of the Mercy Ships Alumni Newsletter.
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Anesthetist Helps Sick In Africa
She traveled by foot for miles, looking for the "white doctors" who could help her. The 11-year-old Sierra Leone native had suffered terrible burns on her right arm, and the scars kept her from moving her wrist and elbow. She found help aboard the Africa Mercy, a private floating hospital where volunteer medical workers provide free care.
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Couple Helps Bring Vision For Those In Need
Dr. Ralph Crew and his wife, Kay, traveled to the capital of the poor western African nation to volunteer their time and talents on the Africa Mercy. Ralph helped perform eye surgery on about 75 patients during the two-week mission trip and Kay worked with a group that visited a local senior living facility, a school for the blind and a home for disabled children.
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Marion nurse volunteers on floating hospital in West Africa
As a nurse, Melisa Fitch thought she had seen most everything. But the 26-year-old’s eyes were opened to another world when she volunteered for Mercy Ships in Sierra Leone, in West Africa. “It’s nursing, but everything’s different,” she says.
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AFM Schedule announcement
The issue of identifying the optimal window for shipyard and related time out of service in the annual cycle has been under consideration for some time. After several months of research, comprehensive surveys, and financial and regulatory considerations, the IMT, with priority input from the VP for Programs and the AFM Managing Director, made the following decision: Beginning in 2012, Shipyard will no longer take place over the Christmas break, but will take place in the northern hemisphere summer months.
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Serving the needy in Sierra Leone
“I went on a mission trip to India in 2007 with people from my church,” says Sandy Panomarenko, a nurse from Canning Vale in Australia, “and that was very eye opening to learn what life is like for people in the poorer nations of the world.” “Then I heard on Sonshine FM 98.5 about the work being done by volunteers who serve with Mercy Ships. After learning more about the charity I became convinced it was something I should be involved in and use my nursing skills to help,”
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Alumni Newsletter June 2011
Click here to read the June issue of the Mercy Ships Alumni Newsletter.
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Life-Changing Operations
In the midst of planning her wedding, Katie Campbell took a break from flower arrangements and dresses to live on the hospital ship Africa Mercy. This is her story...
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Littleton doctor serves with Mercy Ships, aids African poor
Dr. Ron Edgar recently spent time serving with Mercy Ships, providing medical care to people in Sierra Leone in Africa.
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Canadian-adopted “shoebox baby” reunites with her Mercy Ships rescuer
Nineteen years ago, a mother abandoned her baby girl in a small village on an island near Abidjan, Ivory Coast. Weighing only two pounds and severely dehydrated, the baby should have died. This spring, that same girl, named Niki, reunited with her “rescuer” in Sierra Leone when she and her adoptive mom, Suzanne, flew from Vancouver Island to Freetown to work onboard the Africa Mercy and to meet up with Dr. Keith Thomson, the British anaesthesiologist who helped save her life.
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Reunion time in New Zealand
Mercy Ships New Zealand hosted a very successful reunion moonlight cruise in Auckland harbor.
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Mercy Ships Alumni Newsletter - May 2011
Click here to read some amazing stories of compassion and hope in the April edition of the Mercy Ships Alumni Newsletter!
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Salt Lake City doctor boards ‘Mercy Ship’
A Salt Lake surgeon has just returned to work after taking a month off aboard a ship on the coast of Africa. But Dr. Peter Stevens was not on a pleasure cruise. He was on a "mercy ship," performing 4 or 5 surgical operations each day in a part of the world where the need is enormous. "It's a floating hospital with clean facilities, clean operating rooms and hospital wards," Dr. Stevens said, taking a break from his regular orthopedic practice at Primary Children's Hospital.
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Montville Man Volunteers Time Aboard Hospital Ship
As a retired sailor with 26 years of experience working with a major trading company, Patrick Dollard is no stranger to the sea. This year, after he flew to South Africa to work as a Deck Rating onboard the Africa Mercy, he spent time helping with the upcoming voyage to Sierra Leone, working onboard during the ship and ultimately arriving at the final destination.
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Amato Completes Mercy Ships Tour
Earlier this week, Tony Amato finished his third tour of duty with Mercy Ships and now is back on Long Island. All three of the tours have been to West Africa, this time he performed his nursing duties at a stop in Freetown, Sierra Leone.
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Mercy Ships Alumni Newsletter April 2011
Click here to read some amazing stories of compassion and hope in the April edition of the Mercy Ships Alumni Newsletter!
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A Compassionate Heart
He was in a hotel in Brussels, just a few hours before his flight to Africa. He was stunned to hear a report on BBC News about the 9.0-magnitude earthquake and resulting tsunami in Japan. The images of destruction broke his heart. Journey with Dr. Yasuhiro Kawashima, a Mercy Ships Alum, as he decides to curtail his trip to Sierra Leone to return home to help his people.
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Reconnecting with Alumni in Korea
Recently, the Mercy Ships Korea office hosted Don and Deyon Stephens, Mercy Ships founder and co-founder, for a visit to their country. In between meetings Don and Deyon met with Alumni and Office Staff in Seoul, Korea to reconnect and strenghten their relationships.
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