Antonio was a hard-working farmer in Honduras. He didn’t expect trouble as he opened the door. 

Mercy Ships works to save lives in the FUTURE by offering medical capacity-building programs to the countries we serve. And we work to save lives NOW by offering free surgery. 

Antonio was a hard-working farmer in Honduras. He didn’t expect trouble as he opened the door. 

Mercy Ships wants to help change the story for the “bottom billion” of the world’s population. Most of them live in sub-Saharan Africa and have no access to safe, timely, and affordable surgery.

Finding the right person for the right job onboard our hospital ships sounds like a complex puzzle.

Dahlia was finishing her second year of university when our hospital ship arrived in her country — Madagascar. 

We could not do our life-changing medical work without the help of translators.

Somaya was born with a cleft lip and palate. People told her mother to put the baby in an orphanage. 

For the past fifty years, Felisia had lived without something we all take for granted.