Posts Tagged ‘Mercy Ships’
Hope and Healing: An Interview with Mark and Peggy Shrime
One of the most popular trends in modern travel is voluntourism. One part travel, one part volunteering, voluntourism offers travellers a way to delve deeper into a place while also making it possible to support the local community in some small (or large) way.
Mark and Peggy's trip is a perfect example of voluntourism. A pair of physicians from New York City, they are on a one-year trip around the world, combining their love for travel with their desire to offer their medical skills as volunteers. After 6 months of roaming the globe, they will spend another 6 months in Sierra Leone, where they will volunteer with Mercy Ships, a charity providing free specialised health care to the Sierra Leoneans.
