As American President George W. Bush and First Lady Laura Bush captivated up their six-day bout of Africa with a appointment to Liberia today, Mercy Ships advance doctors from about the apple began the aboriginal of several thousand surgeries onboard the Africa Mercy in the Port of Monrovia, just account abroad from the festivities. I apperceive you, Mercy Ships! Don, acknowledge you for the plan that Mercy Ships is accomplishing for the humans of Liberia. President Ellen has told me of the admirable plan you are accomplishing for the Liberian people.
Garden Valley, TX (Vocus/PRWEB ) February 23, 2008 -- As American President George W. Bush and First Lady Laura Bush captivated up their six-day bout of Africa with a appointment to Liberia today, Mercy Ships advance doctors from about the apple began the aboriginal of several thousand surgeries onboard the Africa Mercy in the Port of Monrovia, just account abroad from the festivities.
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Among a accumulation of able-bodied over one hundred guests advantaged to participate in the accompaniment appointment were Mercy Ships Founders, Don and Deyon Stephens, accompanied by the Africa Mercy Executive Director, Solfrid Quist. The President and First Lady were the appropriate guests at a bologna served on the backyard of the Executive Mansion by Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf.
During the luncheon, President Sirleaf fabricated a point to accede the plan of Mercy Ships whose International Operations Center is in the President’s home accompaniment of Texas. President Bush, aloft acquirements of the Stephens attendance in the audience, signaled Don Stephens to the belvedere area he stated: “I apperceive you, Mercy Ships! Don, acknowledge you for the plan that Mercy Ships is accomplishing for the humans of Liberia. President Ellen has told me of the admirable plan you are accomplishing for the Liberian people.”
The Africa Mercy, the better non-governmental hospital address in the world, accustomed aback in Liberia beforehand this ages afterward its countdown beat to the war-torn country endure year. A accumulation medical screening was captivated this accomplished Monday at the Samuel Kanyon Doe Stadium in alertness for admissions that activate on Wednesday. Over one thousand humans accustomed in the aboriginal hours of the morning, adhering to the achievement that Mercy Ships able volunteers could advice them balance from affliction and injuries.
Tuesday, President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf paid a appointment to the address and offered these animadversion to the crew: “You could accept acclimated your assets for your own comfort, but you absitively to give. And so, we account you for that. There are abounding of you in this allowance who serve: the captain, the doctors, all of those who plan on the ship; volunteers accord their time to be able to appear way above the ocean to serve humans they don’t know. To be able to affliction for them and to accomplish them accomplished afresh and to accord them a activity again…that’s something that can alone appear from one whose affection is affected by the activity of Jesus.”
This year’s acreage account will see Mercy Ships architecture on the success of its antecedent visits to Liberia by accretion training/mentoring aspects to bounded medical and architecture personnel, in accession to accouterment the chargeless surgeries onboard. This added focus avalanche in absolute band with the Mercy Ships authoritative ambition of accouterment a Regional Health Strategy to the humans of West Africa.
President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the aboriginal democratically-elected woman to advance an African nation, aswell fabricated acknowledgment of the outstanding plan of Mercy Ships during a contempo Annual Address to the National Legislature, saying: “I am captivated that Mercy Ships has called to bless its 30th celebration year by allowance the humans of Liberia. We are alive harder to clean our country, but it takes time, and after Mercy Ships bags of Liberians would still be cat-and-mouse for capital medical affliction and for apple-pie water. Mercy Ships abutment is invaluable, and the millions of humans who accept benefitted from their generosity over the years are a abiding legacy.”
Mercy Ships is the baton in application hospital ships to bear free, world-class bloom affliction casework to the abandoned poor. Founded in 1978 by Don and Deyon Stephens, Mercy Ships has anon impacted over 1.9 actor beneficiaries, with a amount of $670 million. Some of the added notable achievements include: alleviative over 212,000 humans in apple medical clinics, assuming 32,500 surgeries, 183,000 dental treatments and commutual added than 900 architecture and agronomics projects. Each year added than 1,600 concise volunteers serve with Mercy Ships.
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Pauline Rick - U.S. Media Relations, rickp (at) mercyships.org
Diane Rickard – International Media Relations, rickardd (at) mercyships.org
Phone: 1-800-772-SHIP or (903) 939-7649
URL: www.mercyships.org
