Migrant Offshore Aid Station

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Migrant Offshore Aid Station
(MOAS)
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founding 2014
founder Regina and Christopher Catrambone
Seat Malta
main emphasis humanitarian and medical aid
method Reconnaissance, sea ​​rescue , deployment, help
Action space Mediterranean (until Sep. 2017)
Bangladesh (from Sep. 2017)
people Martin Xuereb
Website moas.eu

Migrant Offshore Aid Station (MOAS) is a private aid organization in Malta for the rescue of boat refugees in the Mediterranean Sea .

founding

Co-founder Chris Catrambone on the rescue ship Phoenix

Regina and Christopher Catrambone, an American-Italian entrepreneur couple, founded MOAS in 2014 with a donation of 4 million euros. Former Commander of the Maltese Armed Forces , Brigadier Martin Xuereb, has been appointed director. MOAS has been accredited to carry out projects within the framework of the European Voluntary Service since 2017 .

Regina Catrambone was awarded the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic by the Italian President Mattarella in October 2015 for her commitment to MOAS for the refugees .

Calls

In 2014 3,000 refugees were rescued within 60 days, in May 2015 700 within ten days. By the beginning of 2017, a total of 34,000 people had been rescued from distress at sea.

From May, MOAS will be cruising the Mediterranean with its motor yacht Phoenix with 20 crew members every year. The yacht can take around 400 refugees on board. Drones are available. MOAS concentrates on sea areas outside the SAR zone of the respective coast guards and cooperates with Doctors Without Borders and the Italian Coast Guard .

Thanks to donations from the British newspapers The Guardian and Observer , MOAS was able to rent the modern ocean-going rescue ship Topaz Responder for a few months from December 2015 and thus provide sea rescue aid along the Greek and Turkish Mediterranean coasts over the winter months.

At the beginning of September 2017, MOAS announced that it would discontinue its operation in the Mediterranean Sea to instead provide support in the Bay of Bengal for refugees from Myanmar who are on the run from fighting between rebels and government troops and Buddhist militias supporting them.

financing

The private organization is financed through donations.

In the spring of 2015, MOAS was almost on the verge of financial failure. The fundraising campaign "23,000 chimes" initiated by the Archbishop of Cologne, Rainer Maria Cardinal Woelki , raised 250,000 euros for MOAS in the summer of 2015. The cardinal has since supported the organization regularly with appeals for donations.

The Avaaz organization said it donated $ 500,000 in June 2015. According to MOAS information, Avaaz collected 450,000 euros in donations for MOAS in 2015.

The Swiss SDC donated in 2016 because of the increase in humanitarian needs in the Mediterranean and a financing gap of MOAS a unique contribution 250 000 CHF (about 230,000 euros) from the state budget for humanitarian aid because the MOAS with her Seerettungsflotte the EU mission Triton of Agency Frontex supported.

Thanks to a donation from the diocese of Münster , MOAS was able to start the sea rescue on April 1st, one month earlier than usual.

Awards

  • 2015: Order of Merit (Medalja ghal-Qadi tar-Repubblika) of the Republic of Malta
  • 2016: Geuzenpenning of the Dutch Geuzenverzet Foundation 1940-1945

Web links

Individual evidence

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  7. ^ Migrant Offshore Aid Station Preps for Next Voyage as Crisis Worsens - NBC News
  8. ↑ Migrant Offshore Aid Station (MOAS) rescues over 700 migrants in first ten days of 2015 operation - The Malta Independent
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  12. ↑ Topaz Responder in Rescue Effort for Refugee Migrants. Topaz Energy and Marine, February 7, 2016, accessed November 18, 2017 .
  13. ↑ Michael Safi: "More than 120,000 Rohingya flee Myanmar violence, UN says" The Guardian, September 5, 2017
  14. ^ "Cologne fuel for refugees" Domradio from July 21, 2017
  15. ↑ Melanie Pies: Director of the Moas Sea Rescue on the help for refugees. Domradio , April 20, 2016, accessed November 18, 2017 .
  16. ↑ "Avaaz Backgrounder: Citizens For Sanctuary June 2015" Avaaz.org June 2015
  17. ^ "MOAS refugee initiative needs donations to continue saving human lives" MOAS, as of November 18, 2017
  18. ↑ Valerie Zaslawski: "Switzerland does not want to provide emergency aid for drowning refugees in the Mediterranean" Neue Zürcher Zeitung of July 29, 2017
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  20. ↑ Our Republic is going to pay dearly for the alarming deterioration in the way we speak to each other - President . Times of Malta December 13, 2015, accessed November 15, 2017
  21. ↑ Geuzenpenning Prize Winner , accessed on November 17, 2017.