One year ago, MOAS opened the first Aid Station in Shamlapur, a fishing village in Cox’s Bazar, where Rohingya people would land after perilous sea crossings from Myanmar. Shamlapur was...
On October 3rd 2013, Italy and the entire world woke up with the horrific news of a shipwreck killing 368 people off Lampedusa, Europe’s doorstep. The day after, public opinion...
On October 3rd 2013, the life of my family deeply changed from a personal and professional point of view. Since then, we actively committed to decreasing casualties at sea and...
“Our efforts to manage migration have borne fruit: arrivals have been drastically reduced”, declared Jean-Claude Junker in his State of the Union speech summarizing the latest achievements and setting new...
A swing, a little girl dressed in red walking in front of an Aid Station, the smile of some children playing behind her, a boy waving goodbye. This picture -...
Nur Begum is around nine years old and lives in Balukhali camp, Bangladesh. She lives amongst thousands of Rohingya who fled Myanmar after the latest crackdown by official authorities. She...
One year ago, the latest wave of violence against the Rohingya stateless Muslim minority in Myanmar started, but no solution is in sight yet. The Rohingya exodus pushed more than 700,000...
Reya is 18, is part of the local community and came to the MOAS Aid Station in Shamlapur for a sore throat. Here, she was diagnosed with acute tonsillitis and...
Anwara precariously walks on some slippery steps with a big water pitcher in her hands. Her small profile almost disappears amid the chaos inside Bangladeshi Rohingya camps, where people are...
Since last June, when the new Italian government started its mandate and the political debate on migration further fuelled national egoism within EU Member States, the situation both at sea...