Feb 14, 2019 | YWAM Blogs
When you propose to someone it is an act of devotion. Your heart is aligned to that someone and no other. When you accept Jesus Christ as your saviour it is also an act of devotion. Your heart is set on Jesus Christ and no other. For me, getting married and doing a...
Feb 13, 2019 | YWAM Blogs
Our team of volunteers have been working around the clock to get an accommodation facility up and running in the wake of a flooding disaster that hit our city, Townsville, last week. Over 1 metre of rain fell in a week, making it the worst flooding disaster in our...
Feb 13, 2019 | News & Stories
In the spirit of Valentines Day, over 100 volunteers aboard the YWAM Medical Ship have sent their love to their home port, Townsville, from Western Province in Papua New Guinea. Townsville has just been through a major flooding disaster – over 1 metre of...
Jan 30, 2019 | YWAM Blogs
Ever since I was three years old I loved to draw. If younger me was ever bored I would walk over to the printer, pull out a piece of paper, find a pen and sit there and draw for hours. Honestly, it was my favourite place to be. Sitting at the table and being able...
Jan 2, 2019 | News & Stories
Abau District Health Services and YWAM Medical Ships – Australia and Papua New Guinea (YWAM MS) completed a successful collaborative patrol in October. Ten members of Abau District Health Services joined forces with the 21-nation volunteer team (including a total of...
Nov 28, 2018 | YWAM Blogs
What’s so bad about home? What happened to make you want to leave? What would make you stay here? What would make you change your mind? Well it’s time I let you in on the secret, the answer you’ve all been waiting for…..Nothing. Picture...
Nov 17, 2018 | YWAM Blogs
Its official we are in the last month of the year! In 30 or so days we’ll flip the calendar and it will become 2019. Maybe like me you’re feeling all sorts of nostalgia as the year comes to close. What did I love about this year? What did I overcome? How did I...
Oct 26, 2018 | News & Stories
Minister for Health and HIV/AIDS, The Honourable Sir Dr Puka Temu, has re-affirmed his support of YWAM Medical Ships’ work in the remote areas of the Southern region and Morobe Province by presenting a cheque for 1.5 million PGK on behalf of PNG’s National Department...
Oct 25, 2018 | News & Stories
Today, the Morobe Provincial Government presented a cheque for K500,000 to YWAM Medical Ships, fulfilling a pledge toward operational funding for the YWAM training and medical ship, MV YWAM PNG. The cheque was presented by the Morobe Province Governor, Honourable...
Oct 23, 2018 | News & Stories
Her Royal Highness Princess Anne honoured two of Townsville’s own last week at a very special and significant investiture ceremony at Buckingham Palace. Mr Ken Mulligan, Managing Director of YWAM Medical Ships, and Dr Daryl Holmes, Managing Director of 1300SMILES,...
Oct 10, 2018 | News & Stories
“The antenatal checks gave me the opportunity to spend one on one time with the mother, doing education and really getting to know them — I enjoyed that and I’m really thankful I got to do it.” Amber, Maternity Nurse, USA American maternity nurse...
Oct 4, 2018 | News & Stories
Wailagi Sub Health Centre sits on the mountainous shores of Goodenough Island in Milne Bay. The bustling centre serves the village of Wailagi and its surrounding areas, but its location offers a unique set of challenges, particularly for laboratory services. During...
Oct 3, 2018 | News & Stories
This December will see the first ever Advanced Paediatric Life Support (APLS) course in Papua New Guinea. This project has been championed by local PNG paediatrician and recent APLS instructor Dr Kone Sobe and Dr Zafar Smith (pictured above), an emergency physician...
Oct 2, 2018 | News & Stories
Excitement ran high as the surgeons aboard the YWAM Medical Ship prepped Ella Waibala for her cataract surgery. Not only would the procedure offer Ella improved vision, it would also mark a significant event for the YWAM Medical Ships ophthalmology clinic: its 1,000th...
Oct 2, 2018 | News & Stories
“We will see a generational change. It’s not going to happen in a day, but in 20-30 years time, I think we’ll run ourselves out of a job — which is what we’re here for. From a dental perspective, we’re seeing a real change.” — Dr Daniel Sundaresan,...
Sep 26, 2018 | News & Stories
At 57 years old, Margaret Jeffrey is stunning with her full face tattoo and wide smile. She has a large family and loves spending time with them, but for the last seven years, her failing vision has restricted her ability to work alongside them. Her visual...
Sep 26, 2018 | News & Stories
For Jemimah Taganny, Georgina Matengim, and Margaret Maku, April is going to be a big month, as they’ll be graduating from the University of Papua New Guinea (UPNG) as medical doctors. But before that can happen, they needed to complete one last placement in rural...
Sep 21, 2018 | News & Stories
“It wasn’t until we went to a village with a whooping cough outbreak that I realised our impact. If we went to a village and there’s no whooping cough — that’s the difference we’re making with immunisations.” — Ally Falk, 24 From her first solo flight to...
Sep 21, 2018 | News & Stories
The last week of the MV YWAM PNG’s deployment to Oro Province was a special week for Vinoria Anjiga, the ship’s volunteer dental therapist from Popondetta Hospital. She was able to go ashore to her mother’s village, Foru, Sohe District, and have a land dental clinic...
