TK Foundation helps fund seafarers’ crisis support for another year

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

Sailor’s Society CEO, Sara Baade, said: “For almost 10 years now, our CRN has been supporting seafarers through abandonment, imprisonment, piracy attacks and, most recently, we have also been there for crew caught up in the Red Sea crisis.

“It is thanks to generous funding, like this provided by the TK Foundation, that we are able to continue this much-needed work.

“This year alone, our global team has seen an 11 per cent rise in the number of cases they have been involved in and our trained crisis responders have supported more than 600 seafarers.”

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 worked with lawyers to release two seafarers imprisoned after being abandoned with no paperwork and crew travelling through the Red Sea who found themselves under attack have called the Sailors’ Society CRN team and say the support offered is a great help and comfort.

Dennis Treleaven, Maritime Program Officer, TK Foundation, said: “We are delighted to support Sailors’ Society’s Crisis Response Network again this year and have increased our funding, as we know how important this support is for the maritime world.

“We support programmes that enable and empower individuals and that is exactly what Sailors’ Society does through this network. We are keen that our grants provide a long-term impact and we know that the Society’s CRN team will work with seafarers and their families for as long as is needed.”
Source: Sailors’ Society