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The Seafarers’ Charity helps fund vital seafarer crisis support for another year

Sailors’ Society’s unique Crisis Response Network (CRN), which provides 24/7 care and support to seafarers, their families and shipping companies following critical incidents, has received funding again this year from The Seafarers’ Charity.

Sailors’ Society CEO, Sara Baade, said: “Our CRN supports seafarers through abandonment, imprisonment, piracy attacks and, recently, we have also been there for crew caught up in the Red Sea crisis.

“But we rely on generous funding, like this provided by The Seafarers’ Charity, to allow us to continue this much-needed work and we cannot thank them enough for their support in keeping this much-needed resource available around the clock anywhere in the world to seafarers and their families.”

Deborah Layde, Chief Executive of The Seafarers’ Charity, said: “Seafarers already go through so much. They must deal with hard physical labour, harsh weather, antisocial hours, not to mention long periods away from their families without internet or phone signal. To get caught up in the growing number of potential crises around the world as well goes far beyond what these key workers deserve. That’s why the work of the Crisis Response Network is so vital, and we’re proud to continue our funding of this support, which is sadly needed far too often.”

The funding is needed more than ever as in the past 12 months Sailors’ Society has seen a rise in the number of cases their trained crisis responders have been involved in, supporting seafarers and their families through a range of traumatic situations.

Earlier this year, when a ship’s captain was informed that a crew member’s wife had taken her own life and that of their 5-year-old son, Sailors’ Society’s CRN team was on hand to give the captain advice on how to handle this difficult situation, not just with the seafarer but with other crew members. And we were on hand to support until the ship came into port and the seafarer was repatriated home.

Team members have also worked with lawyers to release two seafarers imprisoned after being abandoned with no paperwork. They have also been on hand for crew travelling through the Red Sea who found themselves under attack and called the Sailors’ Society CRN team. These seafarers say the support offered is a great help and comfort.
Source: Sailors’ Society

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