Grants awarded

to help fund:

• purchase and distribution of 5,000 COVID-19 Care Kits to meet the needs of seafarers and their families across twelve Indian ports reaching a total of 26,359 people.
• Ongoing support to local seafaring communities in India via a dedicated 24/7 paramedic-led helpline.
• Purchase and distribution of a further 4,800 COVID-19 Care Kits to benefit more than 20,000 seafarers and family members in the Philippines.

awarded to:

• Priority vaccinations for 5,000 Indian seafarers in approved private hospitals in 16 port areas throughout India.
• Financial assistance of up to £1,000 for 80 seafarers, or their immediate family members (approx. 320), who have been hospitalised by COVID-19.
• Emotional support for 3,000 seafarers and their families over a six-month period from ISWAN’s existing SeafarerHelp helpline.
• Financial hardship grants to Filipino seafarers and dependents, as well as next of kin of deceased seafarers, who are impacted by COVID-19, supporting immediate living costs as well as medical costs incurred during hospital treatment.

to provide support to 300 former Merchant Navy personnel through recreational and entertainment events and activities to help prevent loneliness and isolation.

to support emergency grants to Merchant Navy seafarers and their dependants who are in real poverty but who also do not fit within the organisations’ set criteria (e.g. 10 years’ sea service).

to ensure the continued provision of long running and much needed telephone friendship groups known as Seafarers Link, which connect older seafarers via regular, supervised telephoneconference calls.

to enable a Merchant Navy Veteran’s granddaughter to accompany her mother, for emotional support, during a visit to the Falkland
Islands whose father who was killed in action during the Falkland Islands Conflict