In 1994, Ken Dunn and Dan Peterman created a nonprofit community bike shop in Chicago to refurbish discarded bicycles. It became known as Blackstone Bicycle Works.

Marie had a large life-threatening tumor that kept her from being able to eat or even breathe properly.

Azzam was a Muslim pirate in Somalia. He told his imam that he had dreams about Jesus, and the man beat him.  His mother told him to leave home for his own safety.

A five-month-old patient named Djaliou [Jar-lee-oo] had a problem that affected his breathing. 

Salamatou and Mariama are sisters – ages 6 and 8. They were both suffering from a condition called windswept legs…and literally looks like a gust of wind had swept their legs to one side.

Carl and Pat Whitehead have worked for four decades in Papua New Guinea. 

In 1942, Hitler herded hundreds of thousands of Jews into a 16-block area in Poland called the Warsaw Ghetto. 

A crew member noticed one patient’s mother who found a special way to say “thank you.”

It was 1960 in the American South. Little six-year-old Ruby Bridges was the first African-American child to attend an all-white elementary school. 

Lee Ann volunteers as a dietitian onboard our hospital ship, the Africa Mercy.