Fifteen years later, shipwreck survivor rescues other migrants trying to reach Europe by sea.
A member of SOS Mediterranee's Search and Rescue team monitors the horizon at dawn with binoculars for potential boats in distress from aboard the Ocean Viking in international waters north of Libya, Sunday, Sept. 8, 2019. The humanitarian rescue ship jointly operated by SOS Mediterranee and Doctors Without Borders is conducting its second search and rescue mission in the Central Mediterranean.
Now 31, Salem is doing the rescuing, trying to help migrants who set off from Libya in flimsy vessels arrive safely in Europe. While the activities of the humanitarian groups have sparked heated debate in Europe — critics say they just encourage more migrants to make the perilous crossing from North Africa — people have lost sight of the human tragedy playing out in the Mediterranean, Faggianelli said.Italy’s decision to end a major rescue operation in 2014 prompted multiple aid organizations to launch their own rescue missions in the central Mediterranean.
Andreasson, who has also joined activists attempting to break the Israeli-Egyptian blockade on the Gaza Strip, thought he had done his last Mediterranean rescue mission last year, but said the anti-migrant rhetoric he encountered in his home country made him think again. Strictly speaking, the crew members are not volunteers. While the rescue organizations declined to share compensation details, some said they receive between €1,000 and 2,000 euros a month for their work aboard the ship.
The 64-year-old nurse from Vermont said a few years ago hundreds of people from charities and church groups would gather on Italian docks to welcome the rescued. Now the ships are blocked from entering those ports, forcing hundreds of already exhausted migrants to camp out on the deck.
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