Our missions

The stories of torture, abuse and violations of the rights from along the way of those we rescue in the Mediterranean make us realise that once at sea, there is no solution. For this reason, we work in West Africa through training and sensitisation to empower these communities of origin.

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Faced with the COVID-19 health emergency, our crews were confined at the port while the repairs onboard the Open Arms continued. However, our mission is to protect life whether at sea or on land, so we didn’t sit still and instead focused our help towards the most vulnerable people in this pandemic, the elderly.

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In early September 2015 we decided to move to the island of Lesbos to help the refugees who arrived in the Greek coast. We started there and now we are in the Mediterranean sea and at the places of origin of these journeys, because we will not leave while we are still necessary.

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The devastating invasion of Ukraine by the Russian army has forced more than 4.5 million people to flee the country in search of refuge, making it the largest humanitarian emergency in Europe since World War II. Open Arms has launched, in record time, different actions to protect the most vulnerable people, in collaboration with other civil society entities.

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