Wonder is the beginning of knowledge
"You know your work, but you want to engage them, you want to know them, and I think this is the best part" This is a quote from the MOAS documentary,...
09 Jun 2017
05 Jun 2017
Caritas Festival Porti di Terra , Caritas Benevento, May 26th 2017
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 our...
01 Jun 2017
How many more victims at sea?
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 an...
22 May 2017
Death cannot be measured by numbers
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 many...
17 May 2017
Life after Boko Haram
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...
16 May 2017
Sabir, Festival of Mediterranean Culture
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...
14 May 2017
Today we celebrate Mother’s Day, an occasion to pay tribute to the origin of life
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 they...
10 May 2017
Dying for a baseball cap
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...
05 May 2017
Invisible Lives
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...
02 May 2017
Yasmine and Khaija: Finally safe after a perilous journey
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 family...