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If you’re a security officer that's

had multiple times, a stowaway on your ship,

nations would not really like to take you in,

or would be really hesitant.

We as an organization could be blacklisted.

It's very likely for us to have stowaways.

We have a lot of people that come through our ship.

So patients and visitors have been on our ship

and could potentially know where to hide.

Okay, let's go from this way.

Let’s just move from this way.

Before we sail, we go and do the stowaway search.

So we do that before the sail.

Just on the day of sail.

And the day after sail.

All clear?

Yeah, all clear!

Okay, come with me. This area is clear.

Nothing here.

Room number three. Do you have a pass for this?

Hi. How are you doing?

We're just doing a stowaway search,

so we're just going to come in

and just have a little look around,

see if there's anything been moved or anything.

Have you guys heard anything untowards or...

anything been moved that you know of?

No? Okay, we just come on and have a little... look.

Thank you.

Daniel.

SSO, we found stowaways in Medical Storage Room 3, over.

Gabrielle and I are planning

a big event at the Hope Center.

- Hey, Denise. - Hey, Gabriella.

We are on full capacity at the Hope Center.

Because of that, we won't be able to host the event.

There's no way we could just have it outside and,

and just give the patients their space?

I checked that already.

- Okay. - I’m really sorry.

All right, well, you know, thanks for letting me know.

I’m, I'll...

I'll just go see what me and Beth can come up with.

Hey, why do you look like that?

We can't have it at the Hope Center anymore.

Oh no!

I mean, are we going to cancel it?

- Like, we can't cancel it now. - No, there's no way.

- I mean, we have to talk to Anouck. - Yeah.

My name is Anouck Lehmann, and I am the Operations

Director on board the Africa Mercy.

I'm from Switzerland.

As Operations Director, I'm responsible

for six departments on board the ship.

They are the Academy, Information Services,

Finance, Supplies, Stewards,

and Transport and Maintenance.

I'm also responsible for

the communication to the crew when something happens.

And what I'm good at, it's when we have a crisis management

and reacting to, okay,

something is happening. We have to take action.

We have to make a decision.

Hey, Anouck?

Can-- can we come in for a second?

- Yeah, sure. Please. - Okay.

- We need your help. - Okay.

You know that party that we were supposed to have?

- Yeah, at the Hope Center? - Yeah.

So I just got off the phone with Denise, and unfortunately,

we can't have it at the Hope Center.

And so we have 48 hours to figure out...

Who is expecting to attend?

We were hoping to really bring everyone.

Yeah. What about the dock?

Maybe, it's outside.

Great amount of space.

Yes, it should work.

Thank you so much. You're a lifesaver.

- Thanks, Anouck. - Thank you.

We're here.

It's the final countdown.

So close to having this amazing party.

And thanks to your efforts to get us on the dock.

- It's a pleasure. - Oh, my...

I cannot believe that you were able to make it happen.

Me neither...

Yeah, if anyone can do it, it's Anouck.

- That's a shirt that we should have. - Yes.

Sound system is good,

the electricians we're working with,

the AV tech.

So yeah, they are working on the microphone, the speakers.

We're practicing on our own.

I think you guys are also practicing as well.

And then we're going to do, a collaborative rehearsal also.

- Okay. - Do some some singing together.

I'm just so thankful for y'all.

- We're good to go. Go team. - Yeah.

We are excited,

but we did notice some clouds rolling in earlier

and sure enough, it started raining.

So now we're having to scramble and figure something else out.

I'm not sure what we're going to do.

Camera rolling, and action.

We made a movie in 48 hours.

We're starting the upload.

We’re in.

I've never done anything like this before.

For the first time, we did amazing.

There's a lot of heart that was put into it.

I can assure you,

we enjoyed ourselves making this.

Thank you so much for being here, everyone.

On behalf of the cast and crew,

we are so happy to see all your beautiful faces.

Thank you so much for your support.

Enjoy the show.

Just coming together

and doing it with friends and people

you know is amazing.

I'm so amazed at how talented people are.

- I'm Chris Murray, architect. - I'm John, it's a pleasure.

I'm very impressed with how it turned out,

especially because it was everyone's first time.

It was amazing to see the number of people

that came to see the film, and that the crew

was actually happy with the outcome.

Best director...

From the cast to the crew,

everybody's representing their country, and

it's awesome.

I don't think it gets better than this.

The passion, and the willingness to learn

and come together, it’s awesome!

Coming up on The Mercy Ships.

So we see that, still almost 50% of the stowaways

if we look at the whole global, that go on ships to try to get

to a new nation is to be found in West African nations.

And that's actually where we serve right now.

So this is something we need to take very serious.

Daniel, someone’s here.

We live on a ship and work on a ship.

It's not highly likely

that you might fall in the water,

but the possibility is definitely there.

My name is John Rolland.

I'm from Waynesville, North Carolina,

and I'm an infection preventionist

on the Global Mercy.

Today, we've come to the new Brookfield Hotel pool

to help John’s day crew

who don't know how to swim, learn to swim.

It's such an important life skill.

We've wanted to do this now for a little while.

I don't know that we’ll accomplish that in a day

but we’ll, let's see what-- how far we can get today.

My wife, Jenny and I, spent about three years

on the Africa Mercy from 2008 to 2011.

And we've been here on the Global Mercy since December.

I work in infection prevention,

I manage three day crew.

So the three of them do a lot of hand hygiene,

hand washing, monitoring.

And we do monthly audits in the galley,

dining room, and different areas of the hospital.

And we also respond to any kinds of outbreaks

that there might be on the ship or at the Hope Center.

If patients get sick, then they can't have their surgeries on time.

The day crew that work with me, I want to take care of them.

You know, I want to make sure they're okay.

And they have so many challenges here in this country.

Anything that I can sort of leave with them, it would be helpful

in some way.

For hours I've been like dreaming about this

all night I was excited to come and swim today.

So like, I'm happy to have a great boss to teach me to swim.

This is what we want to do next, ready?

Oh no... oh no.

There you go. Yeah.

Being able to float is pretty important.

So we're going to see

if we can get them to have that comfort level

with being in the water.

Breathe in...

We're in the middle of trying to get Kumba to float.

We're having a little bit of trouble.

I can feel the tenseness in her body as she's floating.

So we're going to work on having her loosen up and just relax.

Maryam is doing pretty well.

She's kind of catching on fairly quickly.

Yeah, I think Kumba’s-- Kumba's getting it.

She's learning how to float a little by little.

She's getting there.

Try to do some kicking exercises

and see if we can get them

moving forward a little better in the water.

Yeah. And then this is-- when you're swimming,

- this is the way-- - you swim?

- Yeah. - So we came here.

We do everything perfect.

So thanks be to Jenny and John.

I think relationships are the key.

And, it's no different whether they're relationships,

you know, between us and other crew members or between,

you know, us and the day crew.

One, two, three.

Hey come back! Hey!

They're just so precious.

They join together with us on this mission,

and we just have really enjoyed getting to know them.

And they will be friendships for a lifetime, I think.

Yeah.

Good morning AFM. It's an exciting announcement

that we're going to give you guys.

We're going to have a revenge match.

That will be crew against day crew again.

Okay...

I enjoy working out to stay healthy.

It's also a great way to get ready for the soccer match.

Kickboxing gives you a lot of energy.

It’s something that helps me to be strong

when I'm playing soccer. It pulls people together.

It's something fun to do with everyone.

Hey, hey, hey!

We're gonna do the practice today.

For the rematch

against the day crew and the crew.

We were not ready that time, but this time,

we will be ready to fight.

We'll see.

That will be interesting,

and I know that day crew,

you're going to lose again.

We’ll find out.

But we're gonna fight.

Hi brother, how are you?

Good, and you?

I'm fine. Thank you, and you?

Yeah. Good.

I received a call from the soccer field that we booked already.

And the lady said that we can't have it anymore.

- Really? - Yes.

But we need that field, man.

It's really sad and I don't know what to do now.

So what if you do find a stowaway.

What do I expect from you?

You will have your security guard with you in your team

that's going to help you

in the best system to communicate towards us

so we can send extra support to your location,

when you find someone.

It's very important to talk about the reasons

why someone would be on board that the person

might be really scared or really want to stay here.

So please take right away distance and say

that you're in a safe place. We're not here to harm you.

We have food and water to take care of you.

Daniel. Someone’s here.

Hey, Dil.

SSO, SSO, this is environmental engineer.

This is SSO. Go ahead.

SSO, we found stowaways in medical storage room three. Over.

Very good. I’ll come down and, keep your distance

and make them feel, safe and secure. Over.

Roger that. Okay. We can get these boxes moved.

We'll just need to speak to them. See if they’re okay.

And, just check on their welfare.

Oh, hi. Hello.

- Hello. - How are you doing?

We're not gonna harm you.

We can get you some food and some water.

You can come out.

You found some...

- stowaways. - Yeah, Dil found them,

I didn't find them.

Well done.

Well, this is a serious crime, gentlemen.

What we just did was a stowaway search.

This is one of the things we do in a planning before voyage.

And super important, because this ship is so large

and there's so many spaces where people could hide,

but also materials could be hidden.

So we really need to take really attention to detail

when we go through it.

We look at the statistics.

So we see that, still,

almost 50% of the stowaways, if we look at the whole global,

that go on ships to try to get to a new nation

is to be found in West African nations.

And so and that's actually where we serve right now.

So this is something we need to take very serious.

And why it's so important is that if we go at sea

and we would have someone with us illegally,

we would kind of be stuck.

We have to wait in international waters

to solve the matter before we can go to the next nation.

It would for sure, uh... havoc

our big planning that we have.

We need to be ready in time for the next field service.

We make promises to the nations we're going to.

So it's better to prevent than to cure,

what the doctors say.

That's also in this case.

We really need to just be careful

and be diligent in the front part,

so we prevent this from happening.

And this particular one went very well.

And it's also, an extra motivation for people to

search well, when we use our Academy kids

that want to come along and hide.

Now, thank you for participating in this drill,

and giving our teams a real good search and hiding yourself.

We’ll all have to take you back to your Academy, okay?

The classes are missing you.

- Come on, boys. - Well done, boys.

Okay. Bye.

Till next time.

Coming up on The Mercy Ships.

Namaste, Namaste, Namaste.

So we're here now to really celebrate Mr. Min,

his life, and his dedication.

And we really want to recognize that today.

I went down with Yeva

into the carpentry to make something together for him.

We made him a small gift.

And it really is a token of appreciation for what

he has done for us.

Anton and I are getting ready to leave.

It's definitely kind of bittersweet.

Obviously, there's a lot we're excited

about for the future, but it's also been

an amazing experience here.

And yeah, I feel like I've learned a lot about myself.

I've met so many people from all over the world.

I feel like I have

someone I can stay with in whatever country I go at, so

lots of travel for me in the future.

I'm really glad that I was able to come to Mercy Ships.

I know, like the work we do, impacts

the lives of so many, not just the patients.

All the crew who come and work here

are also definitely impacted.

I mean, you can see it alone in the fact that most people come here

for only a few months

and they end up wanting to come back instantly.

But yeah, it's been a really an amazing experience.

And it's kind of like hard to believe that it's coming to an end.

So I'm just packing up some of our equipment,

so that it will be all secured for sail.

So that way when the ship leaves,

nothing will be moving around and it won't be damaged.

The Global Mercy is getting ready to sail to Tenerife,

where it will have a maintenance period,

and I am going to Sweden with Anton,

and the two of us are going to be getting married this summer.

When I'm done with work today,

Me and Breanna, have been invited

to a double date dinner with Renier and Evilin,

which is really great.

They've been married

for a long time, and me and Breanna are engaged, so

it'll be a good opportunity for us to gain some wisdom.

Namaste, namaste, namaste.

So we're here now to really celebrate

Mr. Min, his life,

and his dedication to-- to really

his family and his children to be able to study.

So after his retirement in the army,

he went to work on ships and mostly also within Mercy Ships.

And we really want to recognize that today.

And we do that by sharing a meal

and to really to celebrate this

highlight before he retires in two months.

Let's pray. Father, thank You for creating these men

so diligently.

And they, they served their families and their nation

in such a respectful way.

They've-- they've covered us with their protection

and their kindness and their love.

We want to celebrate that today, in this moment.

The words that we will speak towards each other,

may they bring life and they may honor You.

We bless this food in Your name.

Amen.

We all gathered here today

for the farewell

to see our best friend, our colleague,

Mr. Min Gurung,

who served here since 2021 with GLM.

He has been very dedicated

And hardworking and always ensuring our safety

with his warm smile and kind heart.

I really want to say

thank you Min, for everything.

We always remember and you always stay in our heart.

Thank you.

I just want to express my extreme gratitude to you in particular,

at this time and to all your colleagues,

because I think we all, as a community here,

sleep a lot better at night, knowing that you guys

are keeping an eye on everything that's going on.

And thank you so much for yourself

and your colleagues for your service to Mercy Ships.

It's my pleasure sir.

I went down with Yeva into the carpentry

to make something together for him.

And we made him a small gift.

And it really is a token of appreciation for what

he has done for us.

Mr. Min,

I present you a little token of appreciation.

So, we made a shield because you,

obviously, you're shielding the the mission of Mercy Ships.

You're shielding the ship, which is on top of it.

And then, we also made you your last badge

that you will ever need.

Your Nepalese badge, it will never expire.

Okay.

Thank you, sir.

Well, I'm very happy today because

everyone is celebrating my farewell party.

And... we are like a family here together.

Thank you for inviting us today.

We pray that the Lord blesses you and blesses your families.

We're thankful for you.

- Namaste. - Namaste.

Coming up on the next episode of The Mercy Ships.

This is a journey that definitely makes changes,

not just in the people that we serve lives’ as well,

but also for those of us who are here.

And as a family,

you definitely have a lot of involvement

in other family lives as well.

Hello, guys!

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Well, I guess that's not just a single answer, right?

You have time?

Yeah.

Everyone is excited to get inside,

but a little bit nervous because I don't want to lose.