Grants awarded

to provide accommodation for 30 days for 44 people at Stella Maris’s Recreation Centre at Kashuby, Gydnia, Poland. Apart from accommodation facilities, the Centre also provided regular meals, toys, dedicated space for online learning with free access to the Internet, and SIM cards without limit to keep contact with loved ones. £7,650 was awarded to cover costs of arrival packages for refugees to include clothes, blankets, toiletries, and other essentials

established by the Marine Transport Workers’ Trade Union of Ukraine (MTWTU), to help pay for transport, rent deposits and other basic needs of affected seafarers, including shelter, food, water and medical services.

launched by International Seafarers’ Welfare and Assistance Network (ISWAN) to help provide immediate and urgent financial support to seafarers and their families directly impacted by the Ukraine crisis. Since the inception of the Fund, ISWAN has received over 800 applications comprising mostly of Ukrainian seafarers, some Russian, and a few Nigerian and Filipino seafarers. Consequently, due to limited funds, the criteria were revised to give priority to seafarers and their families who came from severely affected regions like Kharkov, Kherson, Mariupol, Donetsk, and Nikolayev regions, with 569 total beneficiaries paid up to US$500 each to cover expenses ranging from medical bills, children’s educational support, rent deposits, living and transport costs. Two families received US$1,000 each as the seafarer had died due to the Ukraine crisis.