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Mercy Ships provides transformational health care, relief aid, community development and sustainable change in developing nations to meet the immediate as well as the long-term needs of the poor.

Operating a hospital ship crewed by volunteers, serving field locations around the world, Mercy Ships works to increase the capacity of each host nation to serve the dire needs of the local population. Mercy Ships freely serves the poor without regard to race, gender or religion.

In addition to the thousands of free specialized surgeries offered onboard the ships, community development projects take place in the surrounding villages in collaboration with local partners. These sustainable programs target areas of health, education, water and agriculture. 

Since 1978, Mercy Ships has provided services in developing nations valued at more than $748 million, including the following:

• Treated over 361,000 patients in village clinics with more than 408,000 medical procedures performed.

• Treated over 79,000 dental patients with more than 206,000 dental procedures performed.

• Completed over 1,058 community development projects focusing on water and sanitation, education, infrastructure development and agriculture.

• Performed more than 41,000 life-changing operations such as cleft lip and palate repair, cataract removal, orthopaedic procedures, facial reconstruction and obstetric fistula repair.

• Trained over 14,900 local health-care professionals who have in turn trained many others.

• Delivered more than $65 million worth of medical and other supplies and equipment.

• Taught 112,000 local people in basic health care.

• Established a women and children’s health centre in West Africa which has performed more than 1,558 obstetric surgeries and some 28,900 paediatric outpatient consultations.