Missions

An expectation of hope

It was still dark when 14 vehicles filled with doctors, nurses, servers, escorts and other volunteers left the Africa Mercy on the way to a sports complex in Monrovia for the 2008 Liberian screening of possible patients for surgery during the current assignment by Mercy Ships to the war-ravaged West African nation.

It is a country where an estimated 80% of the population is illiterate and living below the poverty line; there is 70% unemployment, 35% of the population is malnourished, 28% only immunized; 25% per cent of the population has access to safe drinking water, with 36% per cent having access to sanitation facilities. Almost an entire generation has missed out on primary education and an estimated 48,000 people are living with HIV/AIDS.

Since 1978, Mercy Ships volunteers have sought to bring hope and healing to the world’s forgotten poor.

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