Regardless of your score, you’ve just contributed to a fantastic cause!
Regardless of your score, you’ve just contributed to a fantastic cause!
Who we are as a non-profit organization
Founded in 1978, Mercy Ships is a global faith-based charity that uses hospital ships and volunteer professionals to deliver free specialized surgical care and medical training to build the local healthcare systems with our host nations, focusing in Africa.
There are 40 million untreated surgical
conditions in sub-Saharan Africa every year.
We’re on a mission to change that.
We believe that sustainable work is to be locally led. Help us bring safe surgeries to the more people
in Africa. The surgical crisis is massive but. But together, we can solve it one life at a time.
Find out more about Sierra Leone and about our work in Africa by doing the quiz.
Madagascar
Poverty rate
75% of the population lives below the poverty line of $2 per day
Population
27 million
Doctors, nurses, and midwives
0.4 doctors per 10’000 inhabitants 2.2 nurses and midwives per 10’000 inhabitants
What we have accomplish so far in Africa
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+Safe surgical procedures done in Africa.
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+Professionals trained
