Volunteering onboard our hospital ship often brings unexpected experiences. 

It's not unusual for a 14-year-old girl to wish for a pair of pretty shoes. 

Chelsea Ramussen volunteers as a nurse onboard our hospital ship, the Africa Mercy.

The irony is Facebook exists even in the poorest countries that have little access to safe surgical care. 

Many different jobs are vital to run things smoothly on our hospital ship. 

Haley works at the Mercy Ships International Operations Center in Texas. 

The patients onboard our hospital ship, the Africa Mercy, experience amazing physical transformations. 

Here at Mercy Ships, we put our faith into action through providing surgical medical care to people in some of the poorest countries in the world — and lives are changed forever.

The professional medical volunteers onboard our hospital ship perform thousands of free surgeries each year. 

Sarah Strickland shared with a magazine in her hometown how she used her skills as a nurse to make a difference in Madagascar by volunteering with Mercy Ships.