A grandfather from Wiltshire has completed a 100-mile multi-sport challenge along the river Avon to fund himself while volunteering onboard the Africa Mercy hospital ship. Determined Kevin Wright, 65, from Trowbridge, who has had two replacement knees and shoulders, did a mixture of kayaking, cycling and walking from...
Just months after watching a current affairs programme on TV, mum of two Martha Rodriguez quit her job, sold her house and car and headed to the Congo. She told us why – 8 years later – she is still volunteering for Mercy Ships. Watching America’s...
Transforming lives through Mercy Ships takes a global effort with international partnerships that may surprise you. Let us introduce you to a firm in Milton Keynes – Optimum Biomedical – that is a key player in fulfilling the charity’s objectives to strengthen healthcare in the...
Intrepid Matt, 31, and Coco Morley, 32, swapped their flat in Tooting, southwest London, for 12 months in a tent as they undertook a year-long global challenge cycling to Toyko to raise funds for Mercy Ships. Frustratingly COVID-19 thwarted their efforts to get to Japan, meaning...
After spending her entire working life as pharmacist in the UK, Gillian Timm from Wales, decided that she would end her career with a one-off challenge of a lifetime. At the age of 61, the mum-of-two felt she was being called to volunteer on a hospital...
Running a marathon at night, in the Arctic while being offered whale chunks to eat may sound like a bad dream - but that’s just what headteacher Shaun Miles just did for Mercy Ships! Dad of two, Shaun recently returned after completing the Greenland Icefjord Marathon....
A Lancashire grandfather is taking on a gruelling record-breaking fitness challenge to bring life-changing surgery to the poorest nations. Jack Gilchrist, from Lancashire, is attempting to push and pull a 100kg sled a virtual 100km in just 100 days for Mercy Ships. And he is doing...
On a Friday afternoon in Senegal, crewmembers of the Africa Mercy hospital ship excitedly gazed out into the ocean from the highest deck with palpable anticipation. At the same moment, people across the world watched from home, filled with equal expectancy. “There, I can see it!”...
Mercy Ships founder Don Stephens presented with prestigious award MEDICAL training has begun onboard the world’s largest civilian hospital ship – the Global Mercy – just days after the brand-new ship arrived in Senegal for its first African mission. Built by international aid charity Mercy Ships, the...
A grandmother from Cambridgeshire endured vertigo and freezing temperatures as she walked 500 miles to bring life-changing surgery to the world’s poorest nations. Dawn Martin, 69, from Gamlingay has just finished walking the full length of the Camino de Santiago from St-Jean-Pied-de-Port from France to Spain...
Pupils on hospital ship the Global Mercy were so excited to get a letter from the Queen when they sent a congratulations card for Her Majesty’s Platinum Jubilee. Teacher Kathryn Dungworth from Lancashire says the children aged six and seven wrote to the Queen as part...