Mercy Ships has urgent need for short-term and career dental volunteers.
There are more than 22 million people living in Ghana today. Less than 400 of them are dentists. Of course, the majority of this West African nation’s citizens subsist on less than $390 a year, so most Ghanaians couldn’t afford a dentist even if they could find one. Mercy Ships has a critical need for dentists, and other dental professionals, willing to provide hope and healing to Ghana’s forgotten poor.
Founded in 1978 as a global charity by Don and Deyon Stephens, Mercy Ships is committed to alleviating human suffering and distress by bringing world-class medical and community services to developing nations. The Mercy Ships crew is made up of volunteer professionals from around the world. Doctors, dentists, nurses, community developers, teachers, cooks, seamen, engineers, and many others donate their time and skills to the effort. More than 1000 career staff and crew from over 40 nations are joined each year by over 2000 short-term volunteers.
Mercy Ships has performed more than 1.5 million services, with a value of $600 million and has directly impacted more than 1.7 million people. Statistics include treating more than 200,000 people in village medical clinics; performing more than 26,000 surgeries and 162,000 dental treatments; and completing more than 800 construction, agriculture and water development projects.
The Mercy Shiparrived in Ghana in early June to begin her most recent field assignment. The floating hospital will remain in the port of Tema, just a few miles from the national capital of Accra, through February, 2007. Mercy Ships is operating a dental clinic daily out of a school building in Tema - New Town, one of the poorest areas of the city.
Mercy Ships has openings - starting immediately and continuing through the end of the year - for volunteer dentists, dental assistants and a dental coordinator. A minimum two week commitment is required. Qualified candidates should contact the Human Resources Office at the Mercy Ships International Center in Garden Valley, Texas, USA for more information.
Interested dental professionals should contact:
Mercy Ships Human Resources
1-800-772-SHIP (US only)