by Mercy Ships | Jul 11, 2016 | Patient Stories
Ravette has lived her eleven years of life with a deformity known as genu recurvatum, which loosely translates as “backward-bending knee.” It is a congenital dislocation of the knee. Ravette struggled to walk, to sit in a car or chair, to climb a staircase, and even...
by Mercy Ships | Jul 11, 2016 | Patient Stories
Haingo was born in a tropical downpour. The rising river level isolated the small Malagasy village, defeating Viviaby‘s intention to give birth in the nearest town‘s hospital. She laboured long into the night on a mat on the dirt floor of her home. When her baby...
by Mercy Ships | Jul 11, 2016 | Patient Stories
The man trembled up our gangway and did something extraordinary . . . he changed our lives while we were changing his life. Over the next few weeks, his name was spoken across the Africa Mercy’s eight decks, thousands of tears and prayers ascended to God, and social...
by Mercy Ships | Jul 11, 2016 | Patient Stories
Vanya was a cute and happy orthopaedic patient despite her deformity. Vanya, walks across the dock toward the gangway, holding her mother’s hand tightly, as her hair dances in the breeze. Nearby, a large, white ship sits quietly at the dock. The words AFRICA MERCY are...
by Mercy Ships | Jul 11, 2016 | Patient Stories
I can’t imagine what it must have been like for 33 year old Pulcherie from the Republic of Congo when she gave birth to her perfect little girl, unable to gaze into her precious newborn’s eyes due to her own blindness. Laurie, one of our ophthalmic volunteers on the...