"They look so young. I can’t image these boys and girls undertaking this journey by themselves. Travelling across the desert and being in detention in Libya before finally being pushed out on a boat."
“It’s a very short time since we completed the last rescue until we started this rescue. It was just two hours.”
“There were 25 people onboard including six women. We understand that they were pushed out by the smugglers at around 1am… they’ve been almost 34 hours at sea.”
“She had very severe burns on both her left and right upper thigh... When we spoke to herself and her sister we learned that she had been assaulted.”
British nurse Sylvia Kennedy is working onboard the Aquarius, a search and rescue ship responding to the humanitarian crisis in the Mediterranean Sea. In her first blog, she describes how she identifies the most vulnerable people rescued...
Stefan has recently returned from working on board the search and rescue vessel Prudence. He shares his diary entries as the crew wait and wonder about the fate of people trapped in Libya...
Stefan blogs from an MSF search and rescue vessel about his first rescue on board...
Stefan blogs from Sicily as he prepares to join the crew on board an MSF search and rescue vessel...
