Dr. Michele White is a volunteer anesthesiologist from the U.K. She helps strengthen a program we call Medical Capacity Building within Mercy Ships. 

In Africa, a benign tumor can be fatal because, without surgery, it can suffocate the patient. 

It’s a cold and rainy February day in Tyler, Texas. The homeless gather under an overpass near Valentine Street

Christel Echu is a screening nurse onboard our hospital ship, the Africa Mercy.

Edwige is a 23-year-old patient onboard our hospital ship. Mercy had already played a critical role in her life.

Matt Burson hadn’t driven on Starr Road in four years. But he’d offered a co-worker a ride home.

Al was a volunteer with the dental team on our Africa Mercy hospital ship. Decades before he volunteered with Mercy Ships, Al taught dentistry. 

The day Salematu was told she was healed and ready to go home, she felt like dancing!

It takes courage for some of our patients to come to our hospital ship for help. 

Angela Peters rolled her wheelchair into an independently-owned nail salon inside a Walmart.