This is Sierra Leone, with a population of 4.7 million, primarily threatened by hopelessly poor sanitation and inadequate medical facilities, combined with lack of knowledge of basic hygiene. Sadly, the most common cause of death is diarrhea as a result of swallowing harmful bacteria – bacteria often associated with poor sanitation.
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Bambay Sawaneh is an extraordinary individual, whose life’s goal is “not to be a beggar.” This reflects the reality of life in Sierra Leone after their brutally violent ten-year civil war. The conflict devastated the people and left the country in shambles and poverty.
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For the next 7 days Sevenly will be selling this limited edition awareness t-shirt to raise money so that Mercy Ships can perform life-changing surgeries in Sierra Leone, West Africa. Please support and pick up a shirt today!
Our thoughts and prayers are with the people of Norway today and especially our Norwegian crew, staff and alumni. We stand with you and are praying for you.
St. Mary’s Church in Olveston, Bristol, United Kingdom, is taking a stand against Malaria. They have donated £5,000 to Mercy Ships for the distribution of mosquito nets at the HOPE Center in Freetown. This land-based facility houses patients who are awaiting surgery and those recovering from surgery onboard the hospital ship, the Africa Mercy.
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Have you ever met a leader who is truly inspirational? Someone who can light a fire under people and spark them to action?
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Every other year, a team of Ham Radio operators from Holland comes to the Mercy Ships field service site to promote Mercy Ships through DXing, long distance radio transmission. This year, Arie Kleingeld, Arie Noodij, Bastiaan Den Braven, and Ad Van Ginneken came to Sierra Leone for a three-week visit to set up their antennas and equipment to tell people thousands of miles away about Mercy Ships.
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Sally Pentecost from the UK has just returned from volunteering on board the Africa Mercy, the world's largest non-governmental hospital ship. She admitted the experience had changed her life and that she would like to return. Read how this volunteer's heart grew for the people of Sierra Leone.
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Babies born with deformities in West Africa start life as victims of the West African superstition that abnormalities are signs of a curse. When Barbara was born with a cleft lip that extended up into her nasal cavity, her father pronounced that she was a “demon child.” He ordered his wife to take the tiny infant into the bush and leave her for dead.
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Aminata warmly welcomed Sandy, throwing her arms around her friend of almost 20 years. Sandy beamed and hugged her back. Their friendship began in 1992 when Sandy was a volunteer on the Anastasis, and Aminata was a patient onboard the hospital ship.
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Tamba is a day-worker onboard the Africa Mercy. One afternoon, he went to the ward to speak to a co-worker. He felt drawn to a bed on the far end of the ward. The name over the bed looked familiar. He struck up a conversation with the patient and discovered she was his aunt, his mother’s sister, Finda. She had not seen her nephew in fifteen years...
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Mercy Ships has an urgent need for General Surgeons on our hospital ship in West Africa. As a volunteer surgeon with Mercy Ships, medical professionals perform life-saving procedures on patients who have little or no access to healthcare in the developing world.
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Olly Peet is the outgoing Transportation Manager onboard the Africa Mercy and the following is an excerpt he wrote on his blog about repurposing and rebuilding one of our old faithful Landrovers.
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Africa is at the heart of our mission at Mercy Ships, and today, on the International Day of the African Child, we would like to remember the students who lost their lives in the Soweto Uprising in 1976.
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“NECESSITY IS THE MOTHER OF INVENTION,” so the old adage goes. Nowhere is it more apparent than in the physiotherapy department onboard the Africa Mercy.
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Attending the Sunday Ward Service on Deck 3 in the Hospital of the Africa Mercy with the patients is a highlight of my week. The service is for the patients and their caregivers (most patients aged 15 years or younger have someone who stays with them in the hospital). As the Hospital has four separate wards, one ward is selected and patients are given the option to come to the service or to stay in their ward.
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International Nurses Day is celebrated every year on May 12. As a global medical charity, Mercy Ships would like to honor its nurses—both past and present—on this special day.
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While mothers across the UK celebrated Mother’s Day at the beginning of April, Veronica Weatherhead, (56) a mother from Royston in Hertfordshire, spent Mother’s Day 3000 miles away from her own mother and son, as she is volunteering as a nurse onboard the world’s largest charity hospital ship in Sierra Leone, West Africa.
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Don and Deyon Stephens know how to dream big. In 1978 they imagined launching a ship that would provide medical care to the poor in undeveloped nations. Thirty-three years later, Mercy Ships, the ministry the couple founded, has expanded that vision to include the world’s largest charity hospital ship.
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