In 1978 a retired cruise ship liner Victoria was purchased by a group of young people with a dream of bringing help to the poor. Three years later, she set sail as the Anastasis, the world's largest non-governmental hospital.
I arrived in Tema, Ghana, September 2, 2006 8:30 p.m. (Four hours ahead of my Canadian friends and family.) It was dark on the trip from the airport to the Anastasis. When we arrived at the ship my first impression was how large the ship was. The pictures from home did not captivate it.
This is a picture of the ship in harbour from a distance.