by Mercy Ships | Mar 28, 2017 | Video
Prinscio was born with bilateral club feet—a severe deformity that is correctable shortly after birth in our country. But his parents couldn’t afford the surgery and had exhausted all their resources. He was 2 when he took his first steps, walking on the tops of his...
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...
