Alexandria residents Wang and her husband, Justin Lee, recently returned from four weeks in Sierra Leone, West Africa, where they worked aboard Africa Mercy, the world’s largest private hospital ship. Wang is a physician’s assistant, and Lee is an ophthalmologist. What inspired you to take the trip?
We both felt that we were born in America for no reason that we could control, and people are born in Sierra Leone for no reason they can control. We’ve been so blessed here, we felt we should give back. They’ve suffered through a terrible civil war, and we realized that we both have professions that allow us to help in very tangible ways.
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