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Charities

Collaborating in support

of the bigger picture

L
ondon International Shipping Week 2015 illnesses. All ive organisations have a shared

(LISW15) will bring the international primary goal; to support people and their families
shipping community together in one placewhen they are most in need.

to network, learn and do business. It will also Seafaring itself can be a fulilling and exciting
provide delegates with an opportunity to discuss occupation. By its nature it is also a uniquely

and relect on what it means to work as partdangerous lifestyle resulting in problems and
of an industry that is so critically important for dificulties that can affect not only those on board,

the world. It is the strength of the relationships but also their families left at home. Shipwreck,

in shipping that contributes to its enduring abandonment, physical injury and for some, the
success, but those working in any part of the ongoing threat of piracy, are widely known risks

sector ultimately rely on seafarers doing their job for crews. Lengthy periods away from home
eficiently, and it is this which makes global trade and limited communication with loved ones

truly possible.are challenges which maritime charities also
With this in mind, LISW is supporting ive encounter regularly; and the effects of isolation,

charities in 2015. Apostleship of the Sea, Mission stress and exhaustion through long working hours
to Seafarers and Sailors’ Society are at the increase the risk of emotional problems such as

frontline of supporting the seafarer’s welfare depression, which in turn impacts on the industry.
needs. They are based in ports all around the The human impact on maritime safety is widely

world and they work tirelessly to help seafarers recognised. Through regular communication

in contacting home, locating basic products, with crews, families and the provision of
accessing pastoral care and more. Seafarerswelfare support, maritime charities provide

UK is a charity that helps people by providing a high standard of welfare that beneits not
vital funding to support seafarers in need and only individual seafarers and their families, but

their families. It does this by giving money to also creates a happier, more eficient and safer
organisations and projects that make a real environment at sea, practically supporting the

difference to people’s lives. The OSCAR campaign successful ‘propulsion’ of world trade.
is a partnership between Great Ormond Street Charity support comes in many guises in

Hospital Children’s Charity and the shipping meeting a tangible need within the seafaring
community with an aim of raising funds to community. Seafarer centres in ports around

support pioneering research into providing the world offer a safe and welcome environment

better treatments for the most serious childhoodto mariners in strange and foreign lands. The

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