At our weekly community meeting after our challenging March 7, 2011 screening day, the offering was to cover the cost of the hospitalizations of the individuals who were injured on the screening day. While some of the crew members were at the local hospital sorting out the details they met another Christian doctor who was scheduled to operate on one of the woman whose jaw was broken throughout the course of events on Monday. He stated what ever costs we could cover with the offering would be helpful but any costs we could not cover he would do for free.

The director of the ship, Donavan Palmer, also spoke to the crew further regarding the events of Monday his message was timely. He stated there were not enough apologies for what happened on Monday. We have had several successful screening days in Sierra Leone in past out reaches. The advance team had successful screening days in the North of Sierra Leone as well. He thanked the crew for all their work and how we were able to work together through the tragedy. He recognized as an NGO we are not trained for disaster relief. He stated he was “gutted” for the new crew who were in Africa for 48 hours for this to be their first experience.
He re-iterated Africa is a wonderful continent. He stated there was very careful analysis being made of the events. He then instructed us each to extend grace to one anther and encouraged us with a message from John 14.