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Article: Mercy Ships Founders Receive Humanitarian of the Year Award From Variety Club.
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- May 6, 2009
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Garden Valley, TX, May 06, 2009 (PRWeb.com via COMTEX) -- The founders of the world's largest hospital ship charity were honored with a humanitarian award at a glittering ceremony in London last night.
The annual Variety Club International Humanitarian Award (http://mercyshipsnews.org/), whose previous winners include Sir Winston Churchill and Audrey Hepburn, was given to Don and Deyon Stephens who founded Mercy Ships in 1978. It was in that year the couple had a dream to find a ship, equip it as a hospital, fill it with volunteer crew and sail round the world providing life saving medical care to the poorest of the poor.
30 years later, Mercy Ships ...