Jan Tuinier, master of the Africa Mercy, has a vision of making money from recycling garbage in the Dominican Republic. He relinquished his position as captain this summer to help 150 people who live in extreme poverty on a rubbish dump in the Caribbean country.
The project sums up Tuinier’s decision to forfeit a regular salary. He spent about 10 years in European inland shipping and later at sea, working his way up from deck hand, before he came to Mercy Ships in 2001 for “adventure” but saw “a way of practical Christianity I had not experienced back home” in the Netherlands.
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