Tradies onboard the Mercy Ship have a healthy sense of being part of the larger Mercy Ships team, knowing the…
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EDOH HAD NO ACCESS TO ESSENTIAL SURGERY Edoh’s parents had all but given her up for dead. The grapefruit-sized tumour…
Hannah Peters’ huge heart took her to Benin, Madagascar and Cameroon caring for people with devastating conditions. She shares…
Victoria never lost hope. Not after her parents died when she was a girl, not after she was forced to…
A hospital ship in West Africa is a world away from the family farm at Rua Roa under the Ruahine…
These days, Pirongia-born nurse Melanie Allen begins each shift with a two-minute walk to work – down several flights of…
We usually understand a ship to be a means of transporting people or cargo, a luxury cruise liner or a…
How a young software developer and paediatric nurse duo found a place to volunteer together, and the remarkableand life-saving events…
LISTEN ONLINE to RNZ’s Nine to Noon interviews nurse Deb Adesanya about the special bond speaking the local dialect gave…
The backstory: Caring for children recovering from major surgery was Deborah Adesanya’s assignment olunteering in the wards aboard the 16,000…