It’s Official: Next stop, Sierra Leone!
Here it is – the official announcement of my post-Peace Corps plans! In September, when my commitment here in Benin is complete, I’ll be heading to Sierra Leone to serve on board the Africa Mercy!
Mercy Ships is the worlds largest non-governmental hospital ship which offers free surgeries to the worlds forgotten poor. I encourage you to check them out at www.mercyships.org. It’s an awesome organization that changes lives every single day.
If you will recall, I had the amazing opportunity to visit the Africa Mercy last year when they were in Togo and had the most awesome time. Since then I’ve been hoping to return for a longer period of time to serve and those prayers have been answered! I’ll be living and serving on the ship as a general steward for 3 months, which means wherever they need me is where I’ll be – anything from working in the kitchen, washing dishes, hospitality or housekeeping. It’s not super glamorous, but without stewards, the surgeons and support staff wouldn’t be able to do their work!
Mercy Ships crew are expected to raise their own support to pay crew fees and transportation. Thanks to the Peace Corps, I don’t need to raise transportation costs, but please consider supporting me financially to cover my crew fees of $680 per month (for 3 months)! All donations are 100% tax deductible and very easy – simply visit my crewmates page at http://www.mercyships.org/page/outreach/view/crewmates/closek
After I serve on board for 3 months I’ll head back to Minnesota for Christmas with the family, something I am very excited about already! After that? Not sure yet, still exploring many options!
Thank you for your support!!! Peace, Krissy
And now I’ve re-formatted this post three times and for some reason it won’t hang on to the formatting…. Sorry it wasn’t intended to be one long paragraph! Will keep trying to fix it…. Peace!
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