Transformed lives

Lawson was facing starvation because of tumour growing in his mouth. That was until he came to the Africa Mercy.›› read story

Baby Oceane underwent a complicated operation to remove a "second head" resulting from a birth defect. She's now living life to the...

Oscar and his mother Florentine sit together in the Africa Mercy ward before Oscar’s surgery. “I felt a very, very big pain in my...

Dignity restored to a West African teenager

Baby Maomai would have probably died of suffocation had not Mercy Ships doctors intervened with vital surgery.

Three young brothers and sister whose lives were blighted by cataracts regained the gift of sight.

It was hard for the crew on board the Anastasis to forget Alfred. As a 15-year old, he had travelled with his father to the port of...

Kotiam thought there was no way out of his condition. That was until he heard about some foreign doctors operating for free…

Three-year-old Maurel, from Benin, sleeps in a hospital bed onboard the Africa Mercy. His mother, René, sits calmly next to him,...

Janviera remembers the afternoon poignantly – it was a Thursday, 23 October 2008. She recalls her children coming home from school a...

Story of Odilon Baby Odilon was left starving because a cleft lip and palate prevented him from feeding. Onboard the Africa Mercy,...