“It was so bad and so dark, we really thought we were going to die.”
A crew, shipwrecked by a cyclone in the Indian Ocean, has thanked Sailors’ Society’s Crisis Response Network for helping them through their trauma.
The vessel, which appeared to have engine failure just as Cyclone Batsirai hit, was shipwrecked – dashed onto the rocky coast of Réunion Island.
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New school provides seafarers’ children with safe space to learn
Hundreds of Filipino pupils will no longer have to be taught in shacks and tents, thanks to a new storm-proof school built by maritime welfare charity Sailors’ Society.
The six-classroom school was built for the seafaring community of Lipayran island in the Philippines, which was devastated by Typhoon Haiyan in 2013. The...
Seafarers Covid Relief Fund hits US$1 million target
Substantial donations from NYK Line and other donors pushes total funds past US$1 million goal; funds urgently distributed to support COVID relief efforts for seafarers and families
LONDON, 17 August, 2021 – The Seafarers International Relief Fund (SIRF) has reached its goal of raising US$1 million to provide vital relief for seafarers and their families affected by COVID.
The target...
https://allaboutshipping.co.uk/2021/08/17/seafarers-covid-relief-fund-hits-us1-million-target/