A little short-term adventure. Really, that’s all Susan Parker was seeking in 1987 when she signed up to volunteer with the world’s largest civilian floating hospital, Mercy Ships.
It might be fun, she thought, to extend a helping hand to people in need, experience shipboard life, and visit the Mexican port of Lazaro Cardenes, where Mercy Ships would deliver medical care. Susan had a job to return to in the Los Angeles garment industry — and anyway, “I had no intention of staying on the ship any longer than six months,” she says.
But Susan, a recent university graduate, had...
It might be fun, she thought, to extend a helping hand to people in need, experience shipboard life, and visit the Mexican port of Lazaro Cardenes, where Mercy Ships would deliver medical care. Susan had a job to return to in the Los Angeles garment industry — and anyway, “I had no intention of staying on the ship any longer than six months,” she says.
But Susan, a recent university graduate, had...
- 11/25/2016
- by Nicole Weisensee Egan
- PEOPLE.com
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