Dr. Sherif Emil is head of Children’s Hospital in Montreal, Canada.  He’s a pediatric surgeon who volunteers onboard our hospital ship, the Africa Mercy.

Ronald Read was a gas station attendant and JC Penney janitor in Vermont.  Every day he read the Wall Street Journal.

Five-year-old Babacar had a growth protruding from the center of his stomach.  

A group of representatives from Liberia’s Ministry of Health came to visit our hospital ship, the Africa Mercy, in Guinea.   

Martin Niemöller was a Lutheran pastor in Germany. 

Hearing about something and actually doing it are two different things.

Thanks to generous donations from crew members with feet of all shapes and sizes, there’s usually a pile of high-quality shoes ready to be given to patients—usually patients who have had surgery to remedy conditions that hinder their walking. 

Sometimes simple things made a huge difference…as explained in this story from Dorothy in New York. 

Koumba has been bringing new life into her village in Guinea for more than 16 years. 

Chris Street held the University of Iowa school record for 34 free throws in a row.