Impact Report 2024

Mercy Ships Cargo Day has raised over $15 million since 2016. In 2024, 83 companies contributed $2.2 million, with every dollar matched to double the impact.

Another exeptional year

Since its inception in 2016, Mercy Ships Cargo Day has united the Shipping and Trading community in an extraordinary fundraising effort, generating over $15 million for Mercy Ships‘ vital work (including Double Match by Mercy Ships).

The initiative operates through a unique model where charterers designate “Mercy Cargoes” to shipbrokers, who then donate 50% or more of their commissions to Mercy Ships, with additional support coming from shipowners, ship agents, and other maritime companies.

Despite challenging market conditions in 2024, the campaign maintained its upward momentum, raising $2.2 million from 83 companies, even more impressively the number of Mercy Cargoes increased by 26% and pledges by 29% compared to the previous year including 14 new additional organisations joining the movement. While the Tanker sector remains the main contributor to this initiative, contributions from the Dry Bulk sector more than doubled.

As in previous years, Mercy Ships partners matched the total raised. In a separate but related initiative, Eastern Pacific Shipping’s annual “To the Moon” sports event generated an additional $1.5 million for Mercy Ships in memory of Tim Webb.

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Anjaras story

Meet the first patient of Madagascar field service, Anjara. She received life-changing surgery on board the Africa Mercy, on Tuesday, May 28, 2024. In February 2024, the Africa Mercy arrived in Toamasina, Madagascar to begin her fourth field service in the beautiful island nation since her departure in 2016.

The 10-month-old was born with a bilateral cleft lip, leaving her mother, Lalaina, unable to fully embrace the joy of motherhood. Having this surgery does not only mean hope and healing for Anjara – it will also lift the guilt and blame Lalaina has shouldered since her daughter’s birth.

As Anjara is walked into surgery with volunteer surgeons Dr Gary Parker and Dr Kyung Chung, it also marks the beginning of a new chapter for Mercy Ships, operating as a two-ship fleet in Africa for the first time.

Anjaras mother hopes that she will grow up to have a bright future, serving people like the volunteers aboard the Africa Mercy.

“I thank Mercy Ships to do her surgery so that she will be like other kids. So, I hope that Mercy Ships' work will continue not only for Anjara but also for other kids who are still out there,” said Anjara’s father, Mamy Jean Victor.