Jesse, Kanoa and the team on TVNZ BREAKFAST speak to Catherine and Aly on board the Global Mercy in Sierra Leone about their incredible reunion - 30 years later. MORE INFO

Matty and the team on TVNZ BREAKFAST speak to Catherine and Aly on board the Global Mercy in Sierra Leone about their incredible reunion - 30 years later. MORE INFO

Ella Hawthorne discusses what it takes to set up a brand-new hospital, and restarting an ophthalmology programme in a post-Covid world - on a hospital ship. The first of two reports for NZ Optics. MORE INFO

Inspired by resilience of patients on board, NZ nurse returns for 5th tour-of-duty MORE INFO

An optometrist paying her own way to bring sight to those who cannot see by volunteering in Africa on the Global Mercy. MORE INFO

A New Zealand nurse is to spend six months in the West African nation of Senegal on board a floating surgical hospital. MORE INFO

Discouraged by recent events and pressures in the healthcare system, New Zealand perioperative nurse Jude Quijano felt he needed to be inspired all over again about nursing and needed a reset. Volunteering in the Mercy Ships’ operating theatres in Senegal reconnected Jude professionally and personally with the end result of his theatre work; the real life impact of orthopaedic reconstructive surgery for a little girl whose life was transformed. MORE INFO

Discouraged by recent events and pressures in the healthcare system, New Zealand perioperative nurse Jude Quijano felt he needed to be inspired all over again about nursing and needed a reset. Volunteering in the Mercy Ships’ operating theatres in Senegal reconnected Jude professionally and personally with the end result of his theatre work; the real life impact of orthopaedic reconstructive surgery for a little girl whose life was transformed. MORE INFO