Oceans Humanity Project

Oceans Humanity Project

Bringing Medical Care to Underserved Coastal Communities

Oceans Humanity Project carries forward a proven maritime medical mission — bringing physicians, dentists, nurses, medications and supplies by sea to communities of the Caribbean and the Americas that are difficult to reach from inland.

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The mission vessel Mercy at rest on calm open water under a wide sky.
M/V MercyMission vessel

The record we carry forward

A mission with a measured record.

Recorded under GPA Globalization Ministries. Verified figures pending.

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Missions completed

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Countries served

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Patients treated

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Medical volunteers

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Surgeries and procedures

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These missions were completed under GPA Globalization Ministries. Oceans Humanity Project carries that maritime medical mission forward.

Continuity

A Proven Mission. A New Organization.

Oceans Humanity Project was formed to carry a maritime medical mission into its next chapter. The organization is new. The work is not.

For years, volunteer medical teams sailed under GPA Globalization Ministries to treat patients in coastal communities across the Caribbean and the Americas. OHP was established to continue that work — the same model of care, in the same kinds of communities, aboard Mercy.

Every mission result shown on this site was achieved under GPA Globalization Ministries. Oceans Humanity Project claims none of it as its own record. What OHP carries forward is the mission, the method, and the obligation to keep the work going.

Mission photography pending

Images from previous missions are being requested from the GPA Globalization Ministries archive.

One arrival

Numbers establish scale. A person establishes meaning.

A family photographed from behind, walking along a wooden dock toward the mission vessel Mercy.
Dominican Republic, May 2022GPA Globalization Ministries

A family walks out to meet the ship.

This photograph was made in the Dominican Republic in May 2022, on a mission conducted under GPA Globalization Ministries — before Oceans Humanity Project existed. A family walks the dock toward Mercy, where a volunteer medical team is waiting. They are photographed from behind, and no one in the frame is identifiable.

Placeholder — patient account pending from GPA

Patient’s words to appear here, with written permission.

The photograph is verified. The account that belongs beside it is not yet ours to publish. Oceans Humanity Project has asked GPA Globalization Ministries for a patient story from a previous mission, together with the patient’s written permission to tell it.

When that permission is given, one story will be told here in full: a single patient, seen during a GPA mission, what was treated, and what changed afterward. Until then the quote above stays empty rather than invented.

The record we carry forward

The mission model

How a mission works.

Five steps, repeated along a coastline. This is the model Oceans Humanity Project carries forward.

  1. 1

    Sail

    Mercy departs port loaded with medications, equipment, and supplies for the mission ahead.

  2. 2

    Arrive

    The vessel anchors off a coastal community that inland medical teams rarely reach.

  3. 3

    Medical teams join

    Volunteer physicians, dentists, and nurses come aboard and set up clinical stations.

  4. 4

    Care is delivered

    Patients are examined and treated, and referred onward when they need further care.

  5. 5

    Move to the next community

    Mercy weighs anchor and repeats the pattern further along the coast.

The vessel

Meet Mercy.

Coastal communities can be geographically close yet difficult to reach with medical personnel and supplies. Mercy provides a mobile platform for bringing care directly to them.

The vessel is the difference between a clinic people cannot get to and a clinic that arrives at their shoreline.

Oceans Humanity Project does not yet own Mercy. Her purchase is under way, and OHP has access to the vessel while it completes — finishing that purchase, and continuing her service as a humanitarian medical platform, is part of what this mission is raising support to do.

Specifications, history and capabilities

The vessel Mercy lying alongside a quay in Mexico, blue hull and white superstructure.
Mercy alongside — Mexico, 2025More photographs on Meet Mercy

Where the work happens

Schematic map of the Caribbean basin A simplified reference map of the Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico, extending from 92 degrees west to 58 degrees west and from 28 degrees north to 6 degrees north. It shows the southern tip of Florida, the Bahamas, Cuba, Jamaica, the Cayman Islands, Hispaniola, Puerto Rico, the Lesser Antilles arc, Trinidad and Tobago, the Yucatan Peninsula, Belize, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, northern Colombia and Venezuela. Markers indicate principal regional ports and, separately, the kinds of coastal communities the Oceans Humanity Project expects to serve. 90°W85°W 80°W75°W 70°W65°W 60°W 25°N20°N 15°N10°N GULF OF MEXICO CARIBBEAN SEA ATLANTIC OCEAN FLORIDA BAHAMAS CUBA JAMAICA HISPANIOLA PUERTO RICO YUCATÁN BELIZE HONDURAS NICARAGUA COSTA RICA PANAMA COLOMBIA VENEZUELA LESSER ANTILLES TRINIDAD CAYMAN IS. N 0 500 km at 18°N
Coastal communities of the kind OHP expects to serve — indicative Principal regional ports and gateways

Schematic. Equidistant cylindrical projection, standard parallel approximately 18°N; graticule at 5° intervals. Coastlines are generalized and markers are indicative rather than scheduled. Not for navigation.

Ways to participate

Four ways in.

The detail lives behind these doors. Choose the one that fits you.

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Donate, or explore sponsorship opportunities that put a medical team aboard Mercy.

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For physicians, dentists, nurses and other volunteers willing to serve at sea.

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For hospitals, pharmaceutical companies, foundations, universities and NGOs.

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Governance, leadership, history, and financial information as it becomes available.

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