Faith, Kindness and Care Aboard the Africa Mercy

Lynnfield native Alainie Costas details her journeys with the volunteer care-giving organization, Mercy Ships, and her recent trip to Sierra Leone, West Africa.

For the past three years, Lynnfield native Alainie Costas, a nurse in the Mass General Hospital plastic surgery and burn unit, has been involved on an epic journey of health, hope and faith. Costas, 34, has teamed up with the Mercy Ships program, a volunteer organization that charters huge ships and fills them with aid workers from all over the world to dock in third world nations and offer medical care. Funded by family, friends and her local church, Costas boarded the Africa Mercy with 473 other crew members and set sail for Benin, West Africa in 2009. In 2010, the neighboring nation of Togo was the destination, and just recently, Costas returned from an April-August stretch in Sierra Leone, an African nation just recovering from the …

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