Proactiva Open Arms
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Proactiva Open Arms is a Spanish NGO devoted to search and rescue at sea. Set up in October 2015, it carried out its first rescue action that same month from its base on the Greek island of Lesbos. As
Volunteer lifeguards (with yellow-red clothes) from Proactiva Open Arms helping Syrian and Iraqi refugees (Lesbos, October 2015).
Òscar Camps, Proactiva Open Arms founder, in 2017.
Open Arms in Pozzallo 26.3.2018 after confiscation
Òscar Camps
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Òscar Camps Gausachs, is a Catalan lifeguard, entrepreneur and activist, known mainly for being the founder and director of the NGO Proactiva Open Arms. He was awarded the Catalan Prize of the Year in
Proactiva Open Arms
…of Lesbos. The NGO has received several other awards, including the European Citizen's Prize awarded by the European Parliament in 2016. Its founder, Òscar Camps, was named Catalan of the Year by El Periódico de Catalunya in 2015. In October 2021, film director Marcel Barrena released a film, Mediterraneo: The…
Oscarcampsoctubre 2017