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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Ghanaian-born Mercy Ships volunteer Christabelle Brimpong passionately believes in the vision of Mercy Ships. After volunteering onboard, she now wants to spread the word as a speaker. But what makes a volunteer, volunteer? For everyone who volunteers, the desire to do...
You can combine personal growth with travel while transforming lives if you volunteer for Mercy Ships - like 19-year-old Teddie Ling-Hall. Like many teenagers, Teddie Ling-Hall wasn’t entirely sure what to do next. He was 18 and was looking for something that...
Now they’re using their wedding to raise more money for the charity that brought them together Neither Irene Blotsky nor Nick Granger-Brown was looking for love. But as the Canadian and the Brit boarded the same plane to West Africa from Belgium,...
Transforming and saving lives is at the heart of why volunteers give their time and skills to Mercy Ships – but many discover they receive so much in return. This Volunteers’ Week we want to celebrate our incredible volunteers for the...
An intrepid headteacher is set to run a marathon in the Arctic as part of an academic year of fundraising at his school to help bring life-changing surgery to the world’s poorest nations. Headteacher Shaun Miles at St Luke’s CofE Primary...
A long-term Mercy Ships supporter is cycling more than 60 miles in one night through the streets of London to raise money for the charity. Don Price, 72, from Woodford Green, London, will be taking part in the London Nightrider on...
Katie Henderson is the very definition of an international nurse. The 25-year-old from Nairn, Scotland, is just one of the international nurses aboard charity hospital ship, the Africa Mercy, docked at Dakar in Senegal, West Africa. In fact, she is just one...