A grandmother of five who had a fear of public speaking is standing down from the lectern after raising £76,000 delivering more than 270 speeches about Mercy Ships. Retired nurse Frances King, 75, from Lancashire - who worked in the NHS...
Ruth Cooper believes teaching has always been her blood and, combined with a sense of adventure, the 45-year-old has found her perfect niche teaching onboard a hospital ship bound for west Africa. Since she was a little girl, Ruth Cooper’s favourite...
Matthieu Bhoyroo is about to head to Senegal, West Africa, to take on a role at an extremely exciting time for Mercy Ships – and for him personally. Here is his story. As the pandemic took hold in 2020, many found...
If you had a career break, how would you use it? Travel? Perhaps spend time on a new interest to develop yourself professionally? Learn about different cultures? Nurse Jenny Powell discovered it could be all these and more when she...
When Carey Anne Dooley started volunteering for Mercy Ships teaching children in an accredited school onboard a hospital ship, the 35-year-old realised she had a lot in common with her pupils. Moving to a brand-new environment and school as a child...
Volunteer surgeon Dr Mark Shrime, believes he has learnt as much as he has taught during his many years at Mercy Ships. Working with a global network of surgeons has been a constant learning curve for him and everyone he has...
At 22, Adam Hopkins, from Manchester, was all set to travel to Florida for his dream job: working as a chef at Universal Studios. But then the pandemic struck. “I was unable to go because of COVID-19, but I’m still confident...
A new year is beginning, and a brand-new hospital ship is preparing to sail to Senegal. Every area of the ship, from the hospital wards to the crew cabins, is coming to life. New faces are also beginning to populate the...
Saliou was born with a cleft lip. At best a cleft lip is a disfiguring condition but it can mean that infants struggle to feed and it can often lead to malnutrition and sometimes death; despite the desperate family’s best...
Volunteering gave engineer Dan Lewis from Anglesey, North Wales so much more than he ever imagined, when he thought his role was just to give. Remembering something his late mum once said would prove a saviour for Dan Lewis. It would turn...
Aged 34, teacher Kathryn Dungworth made a daring decision to leave the job and country she loved and step into the complete unknown. She had been a primary school teacher in Lancashire for the past 12 years and felt inspired for...
As a child, Jane White had a fierce dislike of both hospitals and water. And yet, her career saw her choose a path that combined both – and she isn’t even paid. For the past decade, Jane, a nurse from County...
We caught up with one brand-new volunteer crew member just days after he had arrived onboard the hospital ship Africa Mercy in May. Here is his story then. Watch out for his next instalment in his Mercy Ships journey soon. Alastair...
Grandmother of three, Moira Munro from Dundee, Scotland, has just returned from volunteering on the world’s first purpose-built hospital ship as it prepares to transform lives in West and Central Africa. But it’s not the first time the intrepid 69-year-old has upped...
Missy Brown arrived at the CURE Hospital in Zambia ready to work. Instead, she found herself watching, waiting — and learning an unexpected lesson. Missy has volunteered with Mercy Ships for the past nine years, in the busy role of operating...