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30 Years in Africa Just Getting Started 30 years in Africa Just getting started Mercy Ships UK Annual Report Follow us on social media | mercyshipsuk MERCY SHIPS | JUST GETTING STARTED MERCY SHIPS | JUST GETTING STARTED Dear friends, This year was historically unlike any we have ever experienced. The global effects of COVID-19 have touched almost every person and brought to light the importance of healthcare like never before. Hope and healing through our hospital ships has been the mission of Mercy Ships for over 40 years — with a particular focus on serving those whose need is most Mission prevalent, “the bottom billion.” Economist Paul Collier Mercy Ships follows the 2,000-year-old uses this term regarding the one billion people who live in model of Jesus, bringing hope and low- and middle- income economies, with the most found healing to the world’s forgotten poor. in communities in sub-Saharan Africa. Hope and healing through our hospital ships has been the mission of Mercy Mission Ships for over 40 years Mercy Ships has focused our attention on individuals needing surgery as well as on strengthening the healthcare infrastructure in our partner host African Vision Vision nations. Thanks to the faithful support of friends Mercy Ships uses hospital ships to and partners like you, those suffering from painful, transform individuals and serve disfiguring, and often-preventable diseases have nations one at a time. been able to find the healing they so desperately needed, and many more are waiting. Values We believe that, together with the nations we serve, we have the potential to make a difference in the lives of thousands, not only in the immediate future, but for decades to come! And with the arrival of our new custom- built hospital ship, the Global Mercy, our capacity to provide free surgery and medical training will more than double. We hope as you continue to read all that has been Values Impact accomplished during 2020, you are inspired by the Following the model of Jesus, we seek In 1990, Mercy Ships turned people whose lives have been forever changed thanks to to: Love God. our attention to sub-Saharan the power of hope. Love and serve others. Africa where nearly 100% of the As we embark on this new year, we want to say thank Be people of integrity. population lacks access to safe, you to our family of partners, supporters, and volunteer Be people of excellence affordable, and timely surgery. professionals, who have dedicated their time and in all we say and do. Since then, Mercy Ships has resources to bring hope and healing where it’s needed conducted 47 field services in 13 most. We could not do this life-changing work without African countries, most of which you. are ranked by the United Nations Following the model of Jesus, Development Index as the least developed in the world. Thanks to the support of friends like you, those suffering from painful and Don Stephens, preventable diseases have found the Founder of Mercy Ships healing they desperately needed. 2 | Annual Report 2020 mercyships.org.uk | 3 mercyships.org.uk | 3 MERCY SHIPS | JUST GETTING STARTED MERCY SHIPS | JUST GETTING STARTED Se rge N Why we do it ze m b e le , v o l The Lancet Commission on Global Surgery identifies that 16.9 million people u n t die each year from a lack of safe surgery. That is more than three times the e e r c annual number of people who die from HIV, Malaria, and TB combined. h e In addition, billions of people experience chronic pain, financial catastro- f phe, and social stigma because of injuries, ailments, and disfigurements that surgery could fix. There is an urgent need for significant growth in surgical capacity and training. This is the surgery crisis. Feeding 450 volunteers and How we do it 65 patients onboard the Africa Mercy every day is hard work. Mercy Ships is a faith-based international development organisation that Chef Serge Nzembele (from deploys teaching hospital ships to some of the poorest countries in the the Democratic Republic of world, delivering vital, free medical care to people in desperate need while This is the Congo) and his team ensure training local healthcare professionals and strengthening local healthcare that everyone is fed and systems. All this work is carried out by volunteers, meaning our supporters surgery happy. funds go further. “My passion and pleasure Our ships are the most efficient way to bring a state-of-the-art hospital crisis. is to serve food to our lovely to regions where clean water, electricity, medical facilities, and personnel and amazing crew onboard.” are often limited or non-existant. Instead of trying to build the facilities we need, we can provide a safe, stable, fully outfitted teaching hospital to bring life-saving and changing surgery for thousands of people in need. N gamd am on H a r r is The Africa Mercy hospital: o n T 5 operating theatres i t a Our Ships 80 patient beds, including recovery, intensive care, Our Crew and low dependency wards Our ships are crewed by volunteers from over 60 nations, with an average Draft 6.0m of over 1,300 volunteers joining our mission each year. Every volunteer Length 152m covers their own travel expenses to the ship as well as paying monthly Breadth 23.7m fees to cover their room, board, and personal expenses which allows our Gross Tonnage 16,572 supporters’ donations to go even further. “Growing up in Cameroon, I The Africa Mercy wondered how I could serve The Global Mercy hospital: While our ships are in port, local professionals are hired from African the people of Africa. I joined 6 operating theaters nations to help deliver our projects. Our patients and programs benefit the Africa Mercy in December 102 acute care beds from the experience and skills of these local crew members, and a few go 2017. My responsibilities 7 ICU/isolation beds on to join the crew full time as volunteers. include maintaining the air An additional 90 self-care conditioning units, oxygen beds In 2020, Mercy Ships rose to the challenging circumstances of the year and supply to the hospital, system Draft 6.1m adapted our model to support crew, including waiving crew fees and assisting maintenance, and plumbing. The Global Mercy Length 174m with crew repatriation for those needing to travel home from the ship due to I am happy to be part of the Breadth 28.6m COVID-19. Engineering Team.” Mercy Ships works to empower local healthcare professionals and local Gross Tonnage 37,000 healthcare systems to care for their own people. This is why we place medical capacity building (MCB) at the heart of all we do. Above: Mohammed, maxillofacial patient after his surgery. 4 | Annual Report 2020 mercyships.org.uk | 5 MERCY SHIPS | JUST GETTING STARTED MERCY SHIPS | JUST GETTING STARTED Mercy Ships From the Chairman Annual Report From the Chief of Trustees 2020 Executive Officer Welcome to our 2020 Trustees Annual Report. I would like to record my 2 This year has been one of change, not only in how heartfelt and sincere thanks to all our volunteers, donors, partners and Mission, Vision, Values we work as a team and an organisation, but also in staff for standing with us during 2020. Mercy Ships UK quickly adapted our leadership. Mercy Ships UK staff are now working work to ensure we continued to tackle the surgery crisis in Africa and fight 4 remotely and while we miss the daily interactions with the spread of COVID-19, as you will see in the following pages. I am also Why we do it each other, I could not be more proud of the team’s pleased to say that this last year has been the strongest ever in terms of response to the events of 2020. volunteer enquiries and financial donations. 8 Our commitment to Africa could not be stronger. We saw a change in our executive leadership as our Executive Director, Senegal Field Service When the Africa Mercy left Senegal, a decision was taken Lea Milligan, moved on from Mercy Ships UK to the mental health charity in conversation with the Senegalese government that MQ. I was delighted to announce the appointment of Joanne Balaam as 10 prioritised the safety of our patients and volunteers, our new Chief Executive Officer. Jo has held the positions of both Finance UK Aid Match update as well as removing the added burden to the local Director and Deputy Executive Director of Mercy Ships UK and she has healthcare services. We did not stop supporting our already made her mark in her new role. 12 partners in Africa, we increased our current training The board welcomed two new trustees this year, Naiomi Thalayasingam Smiling into the future programmes and we found new ways to support and and Dr Leo Cheng, who each bring incredible commitment and expertise. strengthen the healthcare workers and systems, as you We continue to search for new trustees to strengthen our board as we 14 will see on pages 14 and 15. grow at pace and focus on meeting our diversity and capability objectives. COVID-19 response As we put 2020 behind us and turn to the future, I Throughout 2020, we saw the further development of our board sub- trust that this report will inspire you and that you will committees to concentrate on our priorities and purposes. continue to support us as we commission our new ship, 20 I particularly want to thank my fellow board members and our the Global Mercy – the world’s first purpose-built hospital 30 years in Africa incredible staff at MSUK who have delivered record outcomes yet again.
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