Dr. Tertius Venter Serves at CURE Niger Hospital as Part of Mercy Ships Collaboration with CURE International
Earlier this year, Mercy Ships and CURE International announced a new partnership to share our resources and send veteran Mercy Ships volunteers to serve on the ground in CURE hospitals across Africa. As a Christian non-profit organization, CURE International operates...
Meet Francois: Gamal Dental Student Shares His Story
Every morning, Francois Tounamou wakes up at 4:30 a.m. and spends more than two hours traveling to the Gamal Abdel Nasser University dental school in Guinea. He gets to the clinic early and leaves late, sometimes hours after class is scheduled to end. In his spare...
Celebrating Africa Day with Dr. Pierre M’Pelé: “We have to believe in Africa”
For more than 30 years, Mercy Ships has been invited to multiple countries on the continent and worked side by side with many different African people. On Africa Day, we want to thank these nations and people for their hospitality, partnership, and friendship. We also...
HEROES OF HEALTHCARE: DR GCOBANI TUSWA
Our Heroes of Healthcare series features incredible medical professionals spanning the continent of Africa. From Benin’s first Reconstructive Plastic surgeon to a maxillofacial surgeon in Guinea, this series highlights the outstanding men and women who are changing...
New Mercy Ship, the Global Mercy™, Ready to Sail Around the Globe
We are very excited to announce that our newest ship, the Global Mercy™, is officially seaworthy after passing the final sea trials. This marks a major milestone for Mercy Ships and signals the approaching end of the construction process, started in 2015. Passing sea...
Dr. Patricia Eyoup Sen Brings a New Vision to Cameroon
Through the capacity building program, Mercy Ships works together with government officials and local medical professionals to strengthen the healthcare infrastructure in Africa – and has been doing so for more than 30 years. In that time, Mercy Ships has been...
Mercy Ships Food for Life Program Changing Lives in Senegal, One at a Time
Mercy Ships has long been committed to strengthening health systems and providing direct medical services through surgical intervention onboard our hospital ships. But did you know, Mercy Ships is also dedicated to whole person care? Since 1997, Mercy Ships has...
Sharing Hope Together on World Health Day
On April 7, people around the world will celebrate World Health Day by amplifying this year’s theme: building a healthier, fairer world. It’s a mission that strikes a particularly resonant chord with Mercy Ships. We are founded on the belief that everyone deserves...
Providing Medical Capacity Building Programs Through a Different Lens: Adapting to eLearning
When 2020 began, Mercy Ships had a full slate of our regular in-country medical training programs in the pipeline. Of course, like many others around the world, we had to adapt our plans when the COVID-19 pandemic broke out early in the year. We quickly realized that...
Lasting Impact in Action: Ly Cheick’s Story
Ly Cheick, a 24-year-old Guinean student, was in the prime of life with plenty of dreams for the future. However, he had a problem — one that was only getting worse over time. He had noticed a bump growing in his mouth that was becoming more and more visible. In 2020,...