The Seafarers International Relief Fund (SIRF), established by leading seafarer welfare charities and the wider shipping industry to support seafarers and their families devastated by the COVID-19 pandemic, has collected $530,000 in pledges so far, and thanks to The Seafarers’ Charity’s agile and established grant-making processes, has already issued grants of almost $400,000 to help those worst affected.
The first three SIRF grants will provide funds to three seafarer charities, Stella Maris,...