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A moment of silence. This is how I wanted to start my speech at the Festival “Harbors of Land”,  organised by Caritas Benevento, who invited me to bear witness to…

After the awful Easter weekend in April another unprecedented situation occurred in the Mediterranean Sea on May 24th. In the early morning the MOAS' vessel Phoenix and its crew, spotted…

For a while now social media and the press have been busy with fake news attacking NGOs saving lives at sea and those who defend them. There have been so…

On April 14th 2014, the terrorist group Boko Haram abducted 276 girls - mainly aged between 16 and 18 - who studied in a school run by the government in…

Between 11th -13th May 2017, the Sicilian town of Syracuse hosted a Festival of Mediterranean Culture named Sabir, which gathered together various entities engaged in handling the migratory phenomenon, from…

I wish to dedicate this day to the mothers I have met since the first SAR mission in 2014, launched soon after MOAS' inception. Exhausted, scared because of the violence…

At 8 am on May 6th 2017, MOAS' vessel, the Phoenix, entered the port of Catania, which had been assigned by official authorities as the port of disembarkation for the…

For months, newspapers and TV programs have been focusing on rescue NGOs operating at sea, which they are suggesting are suspicious organisations with unclear aims and funds. Those same NGOs…

We first thought about creating MOAS in 2013 while sailing on vacation along the Mediterranean, when we were inspired by Pope Francis' words. That summer I was celebrating with my…

I have just returned after being on board the Phoenix since April 12th and taking part in the SAR activities carried out by our team. Even though it is our…