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
SOS Méditerranée
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SOS Méditerranée is a European, maritime-humanitarian organisation for the rescue of life at sea, currently operating in the Mediterranean sea in international waters north of Libya.
Proactiva Open Arms
…waters. Three charities —Save the Children, MSF and Sea Eye— had already suspended their rescue work due to such threats, leaving only the POA, SOS Méditerranée and Moas carrying out SAR operations in the area. Commenting on the incident to the Italian state broadcaster, RAI, senator Luigi Manconi stated: "Life…
Containers on Ocean Viking