After 56 years with a cleft lip, it took just a two-hour surgery to change Samba’s life. Samba, a widower with four children, worked as a cattle farmer in rural Senegal, where he faced discrimination due to his lifelong condition. He had grown used to his cleft lip...
The last time Catherine Conteh saw the deeply familiar smile in front of her in Freetown, it was under dramatically different circumstances. Fresh off the plane from Australia on Sunday, Catherine arrived on the dock beside the Global Mercy™ where she was greeted by...
Following a series of recent meetings between the Ministry of Health and Mercy Ships, the Africa Mercy® has officially been welcomed to return to Madagascar for her next field service. The hospital ship is planned to initially dock in the port of Toamasina in February...
There was much excitement on board the Global Mercy™ recently as a young woman named Hawa climbed up the gangway. Hawa, an aspiring nurse from Sierra Leone, had never set foot on this brand-new hospital ship. But she has walked this swaying path over the water...
As a young boy, Dr. Abraham Camara was puzzled when relatives, friends, and neighbours came to seek medical help from his father, a high school teacher. “He was the only person who had gone to university, and he worked for the government,” explained Dr. Camara. Thus,...
Dr Sandra Lako’s childhood was anything but normal. Growing up on board the floating hospitals of Mercy Ships, she was just a teenager when she first sailed into Sierra Leone. Little did she know this was a country that would define the course of her life. There,...