For many people in low-income countries, surgery is simply not an option, either because it doesn’t exist or it is inaccessible.
Onboard our floating hospital ships, the Africa Mercy and the Global Mercy, Mercy Ships provides safe surgery for free, transforming thousands of lives in every country it visits. On this page you can meet some of the incredible patients we have treated.

Marie Jeanne and Germaine |
There are around 1000 volunteers on our hospital ships at any one time. Could one of them be you!