We are delighted that SOS MEDITERRANEE has been accepted as the first new project into the newly established Moving Child Foundation. SOS MEDITERRANEE is a European humanitarian organization dedicated to sea rescue in the Central Mediterranean. SOS MEDITERRANEE was founded in 2015 in Germany and France as a civil society response to the deaths in the Mediterranean and the European Union’s failure to prevent them. Today, SOS MEDITERRANEE operates as a European network with teams in France, Italy, Switzerland, and Germany.

With the rescue ships Aquarius (2016–2018) and Ocean Viking (since July 2019), a professional rescue crew, and a medical team, SOS MEDITERRANEE is active in the central Mediterranean, where people are fleeing severe human rights violations on unseaworthy boats. Since the start of operations, more than 41,000 people in distress at sea have been brought to safety.

We are in close contact with the new project and are very grateful for the opportunity to support it.

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