‘Eye-opening experience’
Floating hospital a moving opportunity
A volunteer from Aylesford who spent the summer on board the world’s largest charity hospital ship says he couldn’t imagine seeing the medical conditions afflicting people in destinations like Cameroon and not wanting to help.
Halifax on June 30 and arrived
on the cleaning crew, he helped prepare the operating theatres for surgeries, which began shortly after he departed.
However, during his two weeks in Cameroon, he met some patients at the 2017 Hos- Liam Dee of Aylesford says volunteering onboard the Africa Mercy in July and August was an “extremely eye-opening experience.” an “extremely eye-opening experience” to see some of the medical conditions the patients were afflicted with.
people living in Canada wouldn’t think existed anymore but it absolutely does,” Dee said. “Seeing that, you can’t be unchanged by it.”
link its organizational planning to components of the County of Annapolis’ Economic Development Strategy, most notably the 2050 target to “reduce, remediate, and manage contamination of Annapolis County land, air, and water.”
By undertaking this process with support of the municipality,
to focus its efforts on the issues of greatest import and impact to the residents of the region while aligning and supporting the existing municipal economic development strategy.