Dec 31, 2013

More than 7,000 people attended Patient Screening Day during our first field service in The Republic of the Congo.  Sadly, there were some we simply couldn’t help.  Listen to one crew member’s story:

Dec 30, 2013

Mercy Ships volunteer Stephanie Fiduk is a nurse onboard the Africa Mercy.  Some of her patients are women who suffer from obstetric fistula, a common childbirth injury in developing countries.  Listen:

Dec 27, 2013

Let me take you to a special needs school in West Africa.  The class had just started.  Suddenly, Parfaite jumped up and clapped her hands excitedly.  She saw her friend Tiffany, from Mercy Ships, was here...

Dec 26, 2013

Stephanie Fiduk [Fee-duck] volunteers with Mercy Ships onboard our hospital ship, the Africa Mercy. She shares the heartbreaking reality of the women who live with obstetric fistula, a condition caused by obstructed childbirth:

Dec 25, 2013

Delwyn Collins is a cafeteria worker at Tampa General Hospital.  But hundreds of foster children think he’s an angel...