Tweet Here’s a great story from Guinea that I just got done working on chopping up for newsletters. It’s much better in its original form, and I wanted to take a moment to share it with you. All words and photos that follow are not my own, and are credited accordingly at the bottom. ——————————————— [...]
Tweet Here’s a patient story from Togo that I thought I would share from our eye team. It was written by Nicole Pribbernow with photos by Deb Bell and Ryan Chen. The UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees) Camp in Lomé, Togo, houses 3,000 refugees from the Ivory Coast. Therese is one of the [...]
Tweet A story by our marketing department from our time here in Togo. Enjoy! Her voice resonates in the hospital ward on the Africa Mercy. Her song was one of joy and praise. Everyone pauses as they hear her voice ring out – the medical staff looked overjoyed. For Modi Assenou, her prayers have been [...]
Tweet We’ve just arrived in Lome, Togo two days ago. We are about to begin setting up for our next field service, which will last the next 6 months. I haven’t blogged in over a month now as I’ve been pretty consumed with the sail down from Freetown and trying to get a little R&R [...]
Tweet So among the top requests were more patient stories. These are covered and created by our delightful marketing team on the ship, so they deserve full credit (their names at the bottom of the post). I’ll leave their story to you, I hope you enjoy it! —————————————————- It was a long, traumatic labor. But, [...]
Tweet Just a disclaimer: I didn’t write this, it’s an official Mercy Ships publication given to me to use Mariama met her husband in a village in Sierra Leone, a country in West Africa. They were delighted when their first son was born. Mariama’s husband had a stable job as a butcher, and Mariama took [...]
Tweet Adjovi is a demure and pretty 20-year-old woman. Her father died when she was a little girl. When her mother remarried, she and her sister went to live with her grandmother. Adjovi never went to school, so she can’t read, but she does know numbers and can keep accounts very well. Her mother owns [...]
Tweet Here’s another recent story from the Africa Mercy, docked in Lome, Togo. As written, photographed, and provided by Mercy Ships: Eight women sat close together on the bench beneath the awning at the Mercy Ships Hospitality Center in Lomè, Togo. They had come from villages – some nearby and some far away – all [...]
Tweet The following is a story from one of the recent patients of Mercy Ships as sent to me by the ministry. I hope it helps illustrate what it is I’ll be a part of in Africa on a more personal level. Ankosua was outside carefully mixing herbs and water to create a concoction prescribed [...]
