6th June 2016 A joint operation by EMERGENCY NGO, humanitarian organisation which provides medical care, and Migrant Offshore Aid Station (MOAS) is leaving Malta today aboard the Topaz Responder, a search and rescue vessel which will patrol the world’s deadliest migrant crossing: the central Mediterranean. More than 2.000 people have already died in 2016 attempting…
Migrant Response, Italy: N. and H. both came ashore with their families, but on their boats there were around 100 Egyptian children who came alone.
He came ashore with over 200 other migrants and refugees, but for him landing in Europe was especially momentous: it was his birthday.
In the last two days, over 1,500 people have come ashore in Pozzallo and Augusta, Sicily.
We stand with the millions of people who flee a present stained by sufferance, war, persecution and embark on a perilous journey to hope.
"I couldn’t let my sons be made into child soldiers, I couldn’t let my daughters have no future. It’s the dream of their future that led me. And we are alive."
"Every day we do just that: we offer free, high- quality care. It's not a slogan, and these aren't numbers. It's the reality, and these are real people.”
"The worst part was in Libya. They made us work and then stole everything we’d earned."
