tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-237359052024-03-06T09:22:06.467+00:00Tretheway LinesTim, Sharon & Nathanael Trethewayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16489155338731646097noreply@blogger.comBlogger318125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23735905.post-67422025829852945912015-09-21T23:13:00.000+01:002015-09-23T23:14:54.251+01:00We Are Still Alive<div style="text-align: center;">
Just thought I'd post a quick note to let you all know that we are still alive, we are waiting for access to a reliable continuous internet connection and then we will give you an update on what's been happening.</div>
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Please know that you are all in our thoughts and prayers and appreciate all you do to support us in our transition.....we will be in touch soon.</div>
Tim, Sharon & Nathanael Trethewayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16489155338731646097noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23735905.post-58285204569178796822015-06-13T21:21:00.000+01:002015-06-13T21:21:00.180+01:00Can Diving Really be Part of Serving God?<div style="text-align: center;">
Check out what our amazing dive team do to help keep the bottom of our ship clean. Without them our systems would shut down and stop the hospital from working. They are regularly going down and chipping all the barnacles off so another person receives life on board a hospital ship. But this is in addition to their job on board. This video is taken by David Forrest, he's the school principal, others are from departments like Technical, I.T. or Supply.<br />
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Notice all the little fish that are swimming around, the sort you usually see in the exotic fish shops at home, they can even be seen from the dock.</div>
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Here is our recent news with some changes coming for the Tretheways.</div>
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This little boy stole the nurses hearts when they met him. Cute, funny and always wanting to be the centre of attention, he has no idea that his bowed legs are supposed to slow him down! He was amongst the final orthopaedic surgeries. </div>
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Following his surgery he was a little grumpy for a few days but it wasn't long before he was back to his cute self by the end of the week. His Dad expressed his gratitude by saying "Thank you so much for what you are doing here. You have helped so many. This room was full earlier this week. My son has straight legs again and he is not the only one! He and the others will have a chance to be just like the other kids. Thank you!"</div>
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Above is the team that makes these little straight legs happen. Pray for them as they continue to carry out physiotherapy to get these legs working well.</div>
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Madagascar is the fourth largest island in the world covering 226,000 square miles. With so much distance to cover and limited roads, reaching our patients to bring hope and healing has been quite the challenge! In some cases it could take days to travel to Tamatave where we are located. Enter this beautiful Cessna pictured here.</div>
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No, this is not a new addition to the Mercy Ships fleet, but we have partnered with Mission Aviation Fellowship to transport patients located in remote regions to the ship. This Cessna can carry 0 to 12 patients at a time allowing journeys that could take days by vehicle to be done in as little as 1-3 hours. MAF Madagascar has been working here for 25 years and we look forward to partnering with them over the next year.</div>
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I thought this would be a great blog to share with you all from our Transportation Manager. It's amazing what it takes to run this organisation but there is a lot we couldn't do without our amazing transportation team. Click on the picture below to read all about life on "road" with Joe.</div>
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Many of the diseases the Africa Mercy treats are diseases of poverty and malnutrition. what if we could help change that?</div>
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Our Food for Life program has that exact goal in mind. By teaching agriculture skills through biblical principles, the Food for Life program changes the way people eat by teaching them the importance of nutrition. In a five month course, 30 Malagasy will learn a variety of skills including farming, yoghurt making and raising small animals, all in an effort to build a healthy population for tomorrow. On 11 April we look forward to their graduation.</div>
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Tim, Sharon & Nathanael Trethewayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16489155338731646097noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23735905.post-50539318352377126282015-04-01T07:57:00.000+01:002015-04-05T07:58:10.635+01:00Midwives Training<div style="text-align: center;">
In Madagascar, hospitals are not always accessible to everyone. Many women choose to deliver at home with the help of midwives. But what happens when something goes wrong? What resources can midwives count on?</div>
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Several will now be able to count on a little more knowledge. Mercy Ships, in collaboration with the Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland recently offered a 3 day course to midwives, nurses and doctors in the capital city of Antananarivo. the course include hands-on practice in intubation as well as discussion groups for difficult deliveries.</div>
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For many medical professionals it was an opportunity to practice intubation and patient care on mannequins and not cadavers as they normally do.</div>
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After three days of walking and another four hour journey in a car, Sambany showed up on our doorstep carrying one of the largest tumors we have ever seen. </div>
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19 of his 60 years have been consumed by a tumour that has slowly been growing from his neck, now a burden that represents 19 years of misery and disgrace. He said because of the tumour, he had stopped praying. He didn't believe that he would ever have relief. Then one day, near the end of 2014 a friend told, "there in Tamatave, there is a ship, Mercy Ships. You can go there and be fixed". He decided to take the chance and set out with his grandson. For three days they walked until they finally reached a town with a paved road. They rested there for some time then took a four hour car ride to finally reach the port city. He had one of the biggest tumours the screening team had ever seen.</div>
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Knowing the risks, the Mercy Ships Medical team and Sambany reached a decision, they would go ahead with his surgery. The night before his surgery Sambany said, “I know without surgery I will die. I know I might die in surgery, but I already feel dead inside from the way I'm treated. I choose to have surgery.” After 12 hours of surgery, the 7.46 kg (16.45lbs) tumour he carried for nearly a third of his life was finally removed. When he awoke after his surgery, he said, “When I have recovered, I want to repay you, because I am very happy, because I am saved. God gave you to take out my big tumour. God helped me to become like this. God saved me". When the nurses gave him a mirror to see his new face, he automatically held his hand out where his tumour was and with disbelief he brought his hand closer and closer to his face.</div>
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Today Sambany is a new man and he is happy. He came to our community meeting on board to say thank you and received a standing ovation as we rejoiced together in his healing.</div>
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Tim, Sharon & Nathanael Trethewayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16489155338731646097noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23735905.post-306139609632908552015-02-16T20:16:00.000+00:002015-02-16T20:16:00.749+00:00WHO Checklist / Lifeboat Training<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Here is an article from our Medical Capacity Building Manager, Krissy Close about some recent training she has been managing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">If you want to see me get passionate about something, ask me about the Checklist. If you've had surgery in the last decade you may recall being asked several times on the day of surgery questions like what is your name, what are you here for today, and do you have any allergies. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">When I was asked these questions a few years ago before shoulder surgery, I wondered to myself "Shouldn't you know this? You're operating on me!" - but now I understand they do know, they are just following the "Checklist". </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The WHO Safe Surgery Saves Lives Surgical Safety Checklist (aka. the Checklist) is a simple tool that helps the surgical team to improve safety in surgery and has been proven to decrease operating room mortality by nearly 50%, as well as significantly decrease surgical complications and infections. It doesn't require fancy equipment or expensive drugs; meaning it can have as large of an impact in Dallas or Minneapolis as it does in Bejing or Nairobi or Toamasina. The only piece of the Checklist that actually costs anything is the use of a pulse oximeter; so for this we have teamed up with Lifebox, an organization dedicated to ensuring every operating room in the world has this vital tool, to offer pulse oximeters where needed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">You might be thinking, "Well that sounds great and simple, just teach people how to use it!" - if only it was that easy. Behavior change is hard; Just because we know we should floss our teeth every day doesn't mean we actually do it. Just because we know we should use a checklist before surgery doesn't mean we actually do it. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The Mercy Ships Medical Capacity Building program has been working to try and figure out what it takes to successfully implement the Checklist in the local hospitals where we are serving. Over the last two months several Crew Members have been working alongside the surgical teams at CHU Toamasina to develop a practical, modified Checklist, tailored to the needs and requirements of the hospital, and practicing it's use through simulations and practical application in the operating room. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">This week we welcome Dr. Ed Fitzgerald, a general surgeon and Lifebox representative, to offer Lifebox training in Toamasina, Brickaville, Moramanga, and Antananarivo. The team is then heading across the country to Mahajanga next week for checklist and Lifebox training in two hospitals there. It's our hope that through this simple checklist that we could see transformation of surgical care in this country, and in the world. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It's exciting work to be a part of, thank you for your prayers for safe travels and a positive reception by all the Malagasy healthcare professionals we have the honor of serving in this way!</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Read more about the WHO Checklist at <a href="http://www.who.int/patientsafety/safesurgery/en/">http://www.who.int/patientsafety/safesurgery/en</a></span></div>
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Tim, Sharon & Nathanael Trethewayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16489155338731646097noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23735905.post-49725262496091190892015-02-09T19:59:00.000+00:002015-02-09T19:59:00.407+00:00Where Are Our Patients Coming From<div style="text-align: center;">
I've always thought of Madagascar as a little island off the coast of the Southern tip of Africa - but when you are here you discover how big this country is. It takes around 8 hours just to travel by road to the capital city.</div>
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Over the last few months Mercy Ships has been carrying out screenings around the country. In December a team headed up to the capital city of Antananarivo where they saw many patients in need. Some of them began arriving here at the end of December. They met many patients with powerful stories, including a VVF patient who walked for 5 days and then rode a taxi-brousse for 2 days to reach the screening site with the hope that Mercy Ships could help. Another who's father summed up best what a new lip would mean for his 11 year old son who faces constant ridicule because of his cleft lip: <i>"My family doesn't speak to me or my son. No one wants to have anything to do with us. If you can do this surgery for us, it will change our lives."</i><br />
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This was followed by another screening by the Mercy Vision Eye team. We are discovering that the Malagasy have very good eyes so the team have had to go further afield to find suitable candidates for surgery.<br />
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Our surgical screening continued on in Toliara which is the capital of the large Atsimo-Andrefana region, one of the poorest in the country. The region has a total estimated population of 1,018,500 (2004). Then this past week in Mahajanga, in the North West to the Boeny region partnering with MAF (Mission Aviation Fellowship) to help fly them there.<br />
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This has made travelling for patients a little harder than previous countries so through the work of crew members, funds have been secured from various local businesses and cell phone fundraisers to pay for all their travel to and from the ship, whether by road or air.</div>
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Here is a map to show where they are coming from <i>(this was calculated before the Toliara and Mahajanga screenings)</i> :</div>
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Tim, Sharon & Nathanael Trethewayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16489155338731646097noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23735905.post-26551472341283335502015-02-01T21:08:00.001+00:002015-02-01T21:09:22.049+00:00Hope Centre - More Transformation Photo's<div style="text-align: center;">
Here are more photo's from our Hope Centre Renovation. The building is now open and housing all our patients that are recovering from surgeries.</div>
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We didn't really know what to expect coming to Madagascar, we knew it was part of Africa but somehow it was VERY different to the West Africa we had come to know.</div>
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At the beginning the crew spends some weeks getting orientated to a new country with a series of talks on various subjects with guest local speakers. So armed with our very limited Malagasy terms "Salama Tompoko" (greeting), "Veloma" (goodbye) & "Misaotra" (thank you) and making sure we don't use Sharon's "greeting" that is specifically for her day crew friends that she knows well, we venture out.</div>
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When we walk out of the port gate we feel like we are being transported into Asia/Africa. Yes it's still hot but the main thing you immediately hear is the call for you to come ride in the Pousse Pousse or the Tuk Tuk. This is our main form of transport, it's actually kind of hard to find a taxi, and it is really good fun! There is a feeling of calm with no busy traffic jams. </div>
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<i>The TUK - TUK</i></div>
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The crew clubbed together to buy 2 "Mercy Ships Tuk-Tuk's" to run people to and from the port gates. We all buy a monthly "travel" ticket which pays for fuel, a job for a local and the vehicle. It can be a long walk for a 7 year olds legs!</div>
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<i>The Bicycle Pousse Pousse (meaning push push)</i></div>
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We feel guilty riding in these whilst somebody works so hard as we sit lounging in the back because we're too lazy to walk, but on the other hand we want to use them so they can earn a wage for their family. These guys are tough and are very aware of how "fat" you look. They will very freely refuse to take two people that are on the larger size! To be honest we don't blame them especially when you have to push that bike around. We took one (actually two, due to previous "fat" comment!), one day and didn't have a clue what "long" a distance we had to go to get to our destination. They really earned their money and the poor guys decided to rest and wait for us to finish our visit and take us all the way back. We even bought them water because we felt so bad for them.</div>
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The market is a pleasant calm experience, you don't need to jostle through the crowds to get that one thing you want to buy only to have to haggle for another half hour. The stalls are filled with spices galore, vanilla pods are sold by bunches at such a cheap price that vanilla essence is just a waste of time when you can have the "real" thing. </div>
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You can buy branches with fresh lychees in the right season and they are so good, nothing compared to the tinned type you've probably experienced in the local Chinese restaurant. </div>
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There is even a local chocolatier (<a href="http://www.chocolaterierobert.com/en/welcome">http://www.chocolaterierobert.com/en/welcome</a>) selling hand made chocolates, Tim has become quite the romantic, stopping by the shop if he has a meeting ashore, and producing them on arrival in the cabin.<br />
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We also had the chance to go to a local lemur park where many lemurs roam around you in the trees.<br />
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Where did December go? - sorry we've let the blog slip a little this past month, many reasons which we will share over a few posts/newsletters.</div>
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This last half of the year has been very different, after several location changes for our field of services, our advance team that goes ahead of us to prepare our visit had been very stretched. This year they started making preparations for Guinea then Ebola hit and we knew there was no way we could cope with the scale that the outbreak became. So they concentrated their efforts on Benin and just a month short of our arrival date, Ebola was starting to spread in the neighbouring country of Nigeria. With that they packed up and un-did everything they had put together and flew over to Madagacar. They are truly special people and had been through a lot. Usually the team has about 4-5 months to get things ready, we gave them 6 weeks in Madagascar. They did an amazing job but of course not everything could get done. So these last months have been taken setting up things, renovating the buildings that will house our Hope Centre and Eye Clinic. Waiting for container supplies to arrive that had been redirected from Benin. On top of this we needed to get the patient selection process started.</div>
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We aren't in the capital city, in fact all our crew that arrive at the airport have to be driven over to us on an 8 hour bus ride, so you can see the scale of the land we need to cover. So we didn't want people walking for days only to be told we can't help you. So Mercy Ships carried out several screening periods so many people had access. We are also using technology by setting up a <a href="https://www.facebook.com/mercyshipsmadagascar?fref=ts" target="_blank">Facebook page</a> and people can send their pictures in so we can assess if they are potentially suitable for surgery or sending info via cell phones.</div>
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In the first months we held screenings in Tamatave over several weeks, initially we were getting large numbers but only few were good candidates but gradually word starting getting around what we could and couldn't treat and so more numbers were accepted.</div>
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2 months on, things are now starting to flow, the Hope Centre container arrived at the end of December with all the patient beds (these had already travelled from Congo to Benin then to Madagascar!) and the wards are starting to fill up. We also have screening teams reaching further out and have partnered with local cell phone companies to raise money through SMS to help pay for all the transport costs for these patients, some having to travel 2 days by bus.</div>
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We started off with Paediatric Orthopedic patients, dealing mainly with club feet & bowed legs. Latex glove balloons were once again being tossed in the air to entertain them. Before we know it these kids will be up and about running after a ball with a whole different life.</div>
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It's amazing what is possible when you apply a little bit of plaster, know-how and time to feet! For many babies throughout the world born with clubfoot, this has been the recipe for healing: the Ponseti method. Developed by Dr. Ignacio Ponseti in the 1950’s, doctors love the Ponseti method because it is cost-effective (especially useful in developing countries), non-invasive (allows great long-term outcomes) and has a 98 percent success rate (WHO). It is the best available treatment for clubfeet. </div>
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So how does it work? The child’s foot is maneuvered into a more correct position and held there by a cast. This process is repeated until the foot is much improved. Often this is followed by a slight cut to the Achilles tendon to release tension. A brace is then used to maintain the foot or feet at the correct angle and prevent clubfoot from recurring. Thank you Dr. Ponseti for devising a way for us to help so many with clubfoot!
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Tim, Sharon & Nathanael Trethewayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16489155338731646097noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23735905.post-46713326316108214442014-11-26T13:51:00.002+00:002014-11-26T13:51:17.242+00:00Madagascar Arrival<div style="text-align: center;">
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We've always enjoyed the sailing part. The bit where you can sit on the bow, watch the dolphins, special worship times, enjoy God's creation. Somehow this has somewhat changed, or should I say for Nathanael and Sharon it changed. Naturally, Tim is a sailor so for him being out on the water in any type of weather is fine. On the last sail Nathanael and Sharon's minds soon forgot the "nice" bits and focused on the "rolling" bits and started to sound like little kids "are we nearly there" as our ship took another 30 degree roll. Our trip from Cape Town to Madagascar wasn't the smoothest of sails. The safest place for Nathanael and Sharon was staying put on their beds. Many a nights we sat up listening to the different thuds and crashes in our cabin, taking regular cabin inspections to see what needed to be re-tighten or put back together in the wee small hours of the morning.</div>
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So after a week, we were ready for land and now we are here. The land God has for us to minister to, Madagascar. We have now un-packed our cabin that has been packed up since we left Congo in June! We can smell the African air that is so familiar to us. We can be a part of God's healing plan for others - how exciting!<br />
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As soon as we were tied up, the ship went into unpack mode to get the ship ready to receive the President and the Prime Minister of Madagascar 3 hours later. Our arrival brought much media attention as our day of arrival coincided with the launch of Madagacar's "Year of the Volunteer" where the whole ceremony was broadcast live on TV.<br />
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The ceremony continued on into town where many volunteer organisations gathered at the town hall. It was kind of overwhelming to take in everything that was happening in a new country, where the faces and ways were very different to where we had been before. However, we look forward to getting to know the Malagasy people and learning about their lives.<br />
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Yes we know in one of our posts we gave a good tour of Cape Town. This is a different kind of tour. It's been nice to have the support of one of our National Offices in South Africa and also for us to endorse the work that they do so well in their country to promote the work of Mercy Ships. The South African office, led by John Rae, have done a huge amount of PR work whilst we were there. The staff at the V&A waterfront were amazing and did all they could to help us during our time there, whether it was a free berth, setting up a booth in the middle of the V&A waterfront mall where many asked questions, signed up for Mercy Ships newsletters and some even interested in volunteering. Plus the regularly showed our Congo video on their giant TV screen in the outdoor amphitheatre.</div>
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They also took many bookings for private tours of the ship and on the last weekend we opened our gangway to the general public. In just 3 days we had 4211 people walk through our doors.</div>
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Our Communications team created an amazing "hospital experience" which had hospital staff and crew sharing stories and short films to show the work of Mercy Ships.</div>
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Thank you John Rae and his staff for making our time in Cape Town very enjoyable, productive & a blessing. Continue to follow them all <a href="http://www.mercyships.org.za/multimedia.html" target="_blank">here</a> as they have an amazing eye program in South Africa.</div>
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The school photo's this year were very different to previous years as they weren't taken on the ship. As we were in Gran Canaria the ship photographers took the opportunity to change the norm. They scoped out a great park with plenty of blooming rose bushes which also had playground equipment to keep the kids entertained whilst waiting - perfect.</div>
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This is Nathanael's class, Grade 2. They have a new teacher this year who joined the ship in August. Miss Jessica is a missionary kid herself, having grown up in Dakar, Senegal so she is perfect to understand their needs. Nathanael really enjoys her and her sense of humour. We are so glad she is here and the influence she is having on our kids.</div>
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And this is the whole school from the nursery right up to the high schoolers. What a great school, they are like brothers and sisters.</div>
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Tim, Sharon & Nathanael Trethewayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16489155338731646097noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23735905.post-1234121513324597182014-10-13T19:43:00.000+01:002014-10-13T19:43:31.059+01:00Cape Town<div style="text-align: center;">
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We were fortunate to have a long weekend off to enjoy some sight seeing whilst we were in Cape Town, South Africa. So we packed our bags and tried to fit in all our Cape Town "bucket list" items in 3 days.</div>
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The first day we wondered round the V&A Waterfront where the ship is docked. This place is filled with shopping malls, restaurants, live street music and entertainment and seals swimming freely in the harbour. A definite buzz! <br />
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Our evening followed with a wonderful meal with ex-mercy shippers, the wonderful De La Rue family who now live in Cape Town. <br />
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Nathanael got to meet Lucy again who he was in nursery with when they lived on board, needless to say they didn't remember each other at all but soon got on well and picked up their friendship in their older years with the addition of Lucy's new brother. It was great to hear their God filled journey since they have left Mercy Ships and how God has provided for them in so many ways. They took us down to the beach from the other side of the bay with a great view of Table Mountain. </div>
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Thank you Lee and Dana for opening your home to us and the special catch up, we see God's love flowing through you and are thankful for the friendship we share that we can just pick up where we left off.</div>
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Saturday we ventured on the train. Isn't the internet wonderful how you can research anything before you do it. So we paid our total of $7 (£4.50) for the 3 of us (!) to travel in 1st class; actually 1st class isn't anything special like at home, it just means you have a seat instead of standing for an hour train journey. It was a pleasant journey along the coast and our aim was to visit Boulders Beach. </div>
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Boulders Beach houses a colony of penguins, along with special nests that they have created as a conservation measure. Again the internet came out top as we had already read advice on taking the the trail to the right, not the trail directly in front of you. We passed many nests, some with eggs, others with penguins just resting from their swim for food, but when we got to the end we soon realised why this trail was the best. </div>
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Over the other side of the beach many people clamoured to get a view of the penguins, some just catching a glimpse, over our side we were empty most of the time and were able to enjoy the comedy show put on by the penguins.</div>
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Sorry, that was a lot of penguin photo's, but they were cute. We have more but we won't share them here!</div>
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Next on our bucket list was a trip to Robben Island. </div>
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After having seen the slavery forts in Ghana and, most recently, the movies <span style="color: orange;">"<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2024544/" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">12 Years a Slave</span></a>"</span> and <span style="color: orange;">"<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1327773/" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">Lee Daniels, The Butler</span></a>"</span> showing the divide between black and white, we really wanted to get a small feel of what it was like for Nelson Mandela whilst he was held here.</div>
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We were fortunate to arrive at our boat station early and due to it being overbooked we were ferried off to the posher boat, the "Tigger 2". We felt like celebrities with our posh boat and white leather seats looking out on the ocean while the wind was blowing through our hair, well Sharon's hair! It also meant that we sped across the water in a shorter time.</div>
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We were met by the first part of a bus tour which took us around the island telling us a bit about how they live there. A great testimony of mercy and forgiveness as former prisoners and former prison guards live side by side, working and socialising together to bring the history to life for us. We were then taken into the prison, surrounded by barbed wire. We were met by a former prisoner who had served 7 years there and now lived on the Island with his family. He shared how things ran, the categorisation of prisoners, how they smuggled notes in tennis balls over the wall to others, the days of hunger strikes as he worked in the kitchen to cook the food to only throw it away and start cooking for the next meal. It was stories like this that brought the days of Apartheid to life, even up to as recently as the 90's. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The exercise yard where they played<br />
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<span style="text-align: center;">Our speedy boat made it back in no time and gave us a few hours to catch a quick trip up Table Mountain before sunset thanks to a money-off coupon in the paper charging a third of the normal charge to go up, the only catch was to queue for 1.5 hours to get up there, but that was ok once we saw the views.</span></div>
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<span style="text-align: center;">So we managed to get some Cape Town attractions ticked off our bucket list. The rest will have to wait for another day at another time and we are grateful for this time, we are blessed. It's definitely a great place to visit, maybe it can become an entry on your bucket list.</span></div>
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Our blog has been kind of quiet over the last few weeks. It is now October and as of now I expected to be telling you about the wonderful things that would be happening on our field of service, our screening would have been completed and we would have been in the midst of patients lining up to have their lives changed through surgery and the love of God that is shown throughout our daily contact with them.</div>
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But we're not, we haven't even got there and our minds continue to think of those who wait or could have been the one with the appointment card.</div>
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Ebola continues to spread in the many countries our hearts cry out for. Already we see in the news it has reached over 4000 and we pray that a solution will be found soon. It's hard to see those that we have left behind having to live with this outbreak and we ask you to join with us to pray. </div>
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Many of you will remember the God is Love Orphanage we worked with in Guinea. They have now resulted to homeschooling their children to avoid going out and coming in contact with Ebola, we pray for God's protection over them. We pray for the family of Moses who died in riots whilst trying to help and educate people about ebola. He was instrumental in bringing many patients to us and working with a fellow missionary friend there. We pray for some of our African crew members who can't go home to support family with the cost of food rising or attend funerals for loved ones that have passed away as a result of hospitals unable to deal with their everyday illnesses. These are just examples of the wider impact of Ebola.</div>
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Meanwhile we kind of feel guilty as we sit and enjoy the wonderful town of Cape Town, South Africa, far from all of this. We do, however, think of our next country and the miracles God has brought to enable us to arrange a new country in such a short time. On Thursday we begin our second leg of the journey to Madagascar to the town of Tamatave (also known as it's english name- Toamasina, meaning salty or like salt) where we will be spending the next 8 months. Check out our recent newsletter for some facts <a href="http://us3.campaign-archive2.com/?u=4f68cb232a48de191f4974a11&id=d628f418de" target="_blank">here</a></div>
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We wanted to share this great presentation that was created by our communication team on board the Africa Mercy. We are currently still in the Canary islands as we review the ebola outbreak. Meanwhile this time has been put to use to correct some mechanical work on the ship.</div>
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Tim, Sharon & Nathanael Trethewayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16489155338731646097noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23735905.post-19770148520212536402014-07-25T00:17:00.000+01:002014-07-25T00:17:00.112+01:00Sensational Seniors<div style="margin-bottom: 12px; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">This year Mercy Ships had the privilege of working with the maturer generation of Pointe Noire at a senior community centre as one of their Mercy Ministries. Here's an account written by crew that participated in this ministry.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">“<i>But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all surpassing power is from God and not from us. We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed.”</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"> <span style="text-align: center;">I have never witnessed such an example of these verses as I see each time we visit the Senior Community Centre with Mercy Ministries. These are extraordinary people that it is our absolute joy to be able to call our friends.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Congo is one of the few countries in Africa that actually has programs to meet the needs of their senior citizens. Unfortunately, that need is enormous. Many older people have been abandoned by their families, blamed for ‘bad luck’ caused by witchcraft and curses. Some have actually had their homes sold by their children, been chased away and have to fend for themselves at an age where finding and being able to work is extremely difficult.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">These people are “struck down, but not destroyed.” They come together at their local Community Center each Wednesday for a time of encouraging each other, dancing, singing, storytelling and exercise. Mercy Ministries partner organization AMI Missionnaire, working under the auspices of the Ministry of Social Affairs provides use of the center, medical care, food and some housing. Currently the organization is renting housing for approximately 20 seniors, but they are in the process of finishing the first of several houses on property that they own in the area of Ngoyo. When finished there will be free, secure housing for these men and women, with more to come as the organization can raise the money to continue building. Every other Wednesday afternoon is our opportunity to join them. We are learning so much about their culture and history. We’re listening to genuine Congolese folk tales and learning African games and songs. We’re even dancing the ‘Hokey Pokey’! The Kituuba name “Baluuka” sounds much more melodious... (“You put your left foot in; you take your left foot out...”). They’re competitive too! You should see how fast they can run while playing ‘duck, duck, goose.’ And the men against the women in relay races... they are serious!!!</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcMjsvLSOUQZBvATabnsH9VlNUYpCMFB2GQ7MUxjj-ExNcK_K6KJET8EIcg5ArBnqVilql_4kDGztxw3Niwam_q-tE5FsJdRKjs6iB9K_prQU7sigFzuqrhKlZ1EZdwZ0ANWsxGQ/s1600/Untitled.tiff" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcMjsvLSOUQZBvATabnsH9VlNUYpCMFB2GQ7MUxjj-ExNcK_K6KJET8EIcg5ArBnqVilql_4kDGztxw3Niwam_q-tE5FsJdRKjs6iB9K_prQU7sigFzuqrhKlZ1EZdwZ0ANWsxGQ/s1600/Untitled.tiff" /></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Last week Congo celebrated National Senior Day and Mercy Ministries were invited. There were about 300 seniors there, plus a crowd of government dignitaries, including the local mayor. We ate fantastic local food and our team was presented with a gift of t-shirts commemorating the event. Our Senior group performed a drama about a man who had been chased away from his family. He was traveling alone, tired, hungry and needing a place to rest. He came to a village of older people where he was taken in. One villager was jealous because food was given to the stranger instead of him. The other villagers taught him a rather harsh lesson in hospitality... Our Mercy Ministries team was invited to dance the Baluuka with them... we may have started a national trend!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Mercy Ships Eye Team has visited the Senior Community Center as well. They’ve scheduled 23 surgeries for cataract removal and will visit them again to provide much needed reading glasses. Yesterday, one of the gentlemen told us that, “sometimes people come and just bring smoke; Mercy Ships people came and brought the fire.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">But, they share with us so<i> </i>much more than we could possibly give them...</span></div>
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Tim, Sharon & Nathanael Trethewayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16489155338731646097noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23735905.post-57936045309663883462014-07-11T15:05:00.000+01:002014-07-11T15:05:00.249+01:00Crew Focus - Physical Therapist<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Most days you will find Courtney on the dock, working in the Rehab tent with our Orthopedic and Plastics patients. Courtney leads the Africa Mercy</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> Rehab team—she and her crew are responsible for helping bring function back to patients’ lives using therapeutic methods like serial casting and creative exercises. Thanks to our physical and occupational therapists, function is restored to people who never thought they’d be able to write, or throw a ball, or walk normally. We thank God every day for Courtney and the Rehab Team!</span></div>
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In Guinea, we had a patient who was a street dancer who had been burned in a house fire. He had surgery to release elbow and axilla (armpit) contractures. He had been in outpatient therapy for a couple of weeks, and after a long day of stretching on treatment session, he was able to touch his face for the first time in over a year. We got to celebrate his first time bringing food to his mouth in a long time by eating cookies!</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Love is the active choice of trying to do the best for someone else, even at a cost to yourself.</span></div>
Tim, Sharon & Nathanael Trethewayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16489155338731646097noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23735905.post-39435930924444463422014-07-04T00:11:00.000+01:002014-07-04T00:11:00.111+01:00New Ship Contract Signed<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Ok, I'm afraid we are a little behind in posting this, but incase you weren't aware we thought we'd post it anyway.</div>
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Last December it was announced that Mercy ships had reached an agreement with Asian and European shipbuilding firms to purpose build a new 36,600 GRT hospital ship for us. The contracts were signed between<span style="font-family: inherit;"> M<span style="font-family: inherit;">r. </span>Dong Qiang, VP of China Shipbuilding Industry Corporation (CSIC), and Donald K. Stephens, President/ Founder of Mercy Ships, together with Jim Paterson, Senior VP of Mercy Ships Marine Operations.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The vessel will be built at the group’s Tianjin Xingang Shipyard where the shipyard’s Chairman, Mr. Gao Xuehu, and President, Mr. Hu Xiang, expressed excitement to be working on this unique project.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">“This project will make this vessel the world’s largest civilian hospital ship, and delivery is being planned for July 2017," stated Mr. Gao Xuehu, Chairman of Tianjin Xingang Shipbuilding Heavy Industry, Ltd.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">“We are thrilled to formally secure this important milestone for a project we have worked on quietly for quite some time,” said Stephens. “Our goal with this second Mercy Ship is to more than double the hope and healing through life-changing surgeries provided to those with little access to specialised healthcare and to increase the partnership, training and educational support of health professionals within the developing nations our ships will continue to serve.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">This agreement comes on the heels of the Mercy Ships story, recently highlighted by CBS on “60 Minutes” (<a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/africa-mercy-hospital-of-hope-50141230/">http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/africa-mercy-hospital-of-hope-50141230/</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The 174-metre hospital ship will be designed by the Finnish firm Deltamarin. Stena RoRo will manage the actual project construction under the leadership of Per Westling, Managing Director.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The 157-year-old French ship brokerage company Barry Rogliano Salles (BRS) under the leadership of its Geneva (Switzerland) office Managing Director, Gilbert Walter, negotiated the successful contract and sale.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">CSIC is one of China's largest shipbuilding and ship repair groups and operates directly under the China state government with authorisation for investment and capital management. The group has a total asset base of USD 27.54 billion and a workforce of 140,000. The group's 28 R&D institutes employ more than 30,000 engineers, has eight state-level laboratory centres, seven enterprise technology centres and 150 large-scale laboratories.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The new Mercy Ship will be classed by Lloyd's Register and flagged by Malta.</span></div>
Tim, Sharon & Nathanael Trethewayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16489155338731646097noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23735905.post-6213220005755339822014-06-27T23:24:00.000+01:002014-06-27T23:24:00.620+01:00Gisele's Story<div style="margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">This shouldn't be Gisele’s story, but it is. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">In 1993 Gisele was 28 years old, married, and expecting a baby. Following a miscarriage with her first pregnancy, this baby was perhaps even more precious. She was elated with the anticipation of motherhood and the thought of building a family with her husband. Having children was all Gisele had ever wanted; it was the reason she believed she was here on this earth. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Motherhood was within reach. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Since the day she went into labor, Gisele’s life has been shaped by <span style="letter-spacing: 1.0px;">shoulds</span>. She <span style="letter-spacing: 1.0px;">should</span> have delivered normally. When she did not, she <span style="letter-spacing: 1.0px;">should</span> have had emergency obstetric care. Perhaps she <span style="letter-spacing: 1.0px;">should</span> have had a C-section. She <span style="letter-spacing: 1.0px;">should</span> have become a mom. Today, she <span style="letter-spacing: 1.0px;">should</span> be a mother to a 21-year-old son and his assortment of younger brothers and sisters. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">But twenty years later, Gisele is 48, divorced, and childless. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">During a prolonged obstructed labor in her Congolese village in 1993, Gisele lost her baby. Due to the trauma of the delivery, she developed a condition called obstetric fistula, also called vesicovaginal fistula (VVF). VVF is a childbirth injury that creates a hole between the birth canal and urinary tract, leaving the mother incontinent. For 20 years, Gisele has lived with a steady stream of urine trickling down her legs. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Managing her incontinence was difficult because she could not escape the odor. Her damp skirt and wet legs reminded her of the child she lost and of the children she would never have. In the night, she had to wake up hourly to change out of her wet clothes. Gisele’s husband, realizing that she would probably never have children, decided to leave. He still wanted a family, he told her, adding bluntly, “And, with you, I am wasting my time.” </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">While the nature of Gisele’s condition was terrible, her physical pain was now nothing compared to the emotional burden that came with her husband’s public rejection. In her failed attempts at motherhood, she grieved her life’s purpose. In her failed marriage, her fear was confirmed – to be a woman unable to have children was to have no value. Since 1993, Gisele says she has not lived a life – but that she has lived somewhere between life and death, waiting for the day her life would end. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Due to her odor and the stigma around her condition, Gisele withdrew into a life of solitude. In reality, she was far from alone. There are over 2 million women in sub-Saharan Africa and Asia who live with VVF, according to the World Health Organization. In much of the developing world, basic obstetric care is inaccessible. Women must live with, or die from, the consequences of unattended childbirth. For women who endure complications during delivery, too many are left burying their stillborn children and lamenting a long list of <span style="letter-spacing: 1.0px;">shoulds</span>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Gisele wanted to take her life, and she knew the way she would do it – with poison. What would it be like to drink that last glass of liquid, knowing that she would not live to feel it dampen her skirt? But something kept her going, kept her alive. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">With surgery, obstetric fistula is often repairable. As news spread around The Republic of Congo that Mercy Ships was coming, Gisele began to hope. But she tried not to get her hopes up; she had been let down too many times before. It was not until she found herself sitting on a hospital bed in the port of Pointe Noire waiting for surgery that she allowed herself to believe that she might be healed. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Since her surgery, Gisele is all smiles. Graceful and bird-like, she knits with perfect posture and hums between conversations with the women on either side of her. A nurse makes the rounds to check Gisele’s catheter bag, which is full, and she asks if Gisele’s bed is dry. It is. These signs indicate that the surgery was a success. Gisele is glowing. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">While surgery fixed Gisele physically, it cannot make her a mother. However, she has found something else onboard the <span style="letter-spacing: 1.0px;">Africa Mercy</span>. She has found emotional restoration in the attentive way the doctors and nurses check on her and care for her, and in the relationships she has built with the other patients, most of whom are not mothers either. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Obstetric fistula is typically a condition of isolation. Confined in solitude, Gisele was poisoned by her belief that her life had no value. Now, in a room full of women who share similar painful journeys, they have healed through their sisterhood. When the women are restless, they walk the hallways – singing and holding hands. They are united, strengthened, and healed.<span style="letter-spacing: 1.0px;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">When it comes time to discharge fistula patients, the hospital throws a going-away party called a Dress Ceremony. Each patient is presented with a new dress, which she will wear as she goes home. On the morning of Gisele’s celebration, the women gathered in the ward to do their make-up and fasten their head wraps. The room filled with chatter, smiles, and with an energy like that of a bridal party. Gisele surveyed the room of women getting ready and said ‘<span style="letter-spacing: 1.0px;">Aujord’hui c’est bon</span>.’ Today is good. After the celebration was over, Gisele walked out of the hospital, down the dock, and took her first step back into society. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Gisele <span style="letter-spacing: 1.0px;">should</span> have had this surgery long ago. She <span style="letter-spacing: 1.0px;">should</span> have re-entered society with all the fanfare of a Dress Ceremony years before now, but Gisele did not have access to <span style="letter-spacing: 1.0px;">shoulds</span>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Gisele may always carry with her the grief of the child she lost and the pain of the years of suffering, but she will carry it with her head held high, because she knows the truth. She knows her worth. For too many years she suffered with what <span style="letter-spacing: 1.0px;">should have been</span>, but now it is. Now she can.</span></div>
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