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| 04/12/2012 |
| Seafarers' Trust announces plans for coming year |
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The ITF Seafarers' Trust has announced its plans for the coming year, including a review of its operations, the provision of £1 million in grants, and ongoing provision for seafarers suffering from piracy.
The following new grant was agreed by the trustees of the Seafarers' Trust, the charity arm of the ITF (International Transport Workers' Federation): £278,000 for 16 small grant applications, mainly for vehicles and equipment for port based welfare.
The ITF Seafarers Trust was established by the ITF in 1981 as a body with charitable status under UK law. It is dedicated to the spiritual, moral and physical welfare of seafarers, irrespective of nationality, race or creed. Its funding comes from the investment income of the ITF welfare fund, which is used to provide trade union services to seafarers. The Seafarers' Trust, on the other hand, is tasked with supporting projects which directly benefit individual seafarers' spiritual, moral or physical welfare.
Efthimios Mitropoulos, secretary-general emeritus of the IMO, became in 2012 the patron of the Seafarers' Trust. This was the first trustees' meeting that he has attended. He said "I consider the aims of the Trust - to make seafarers healthier, less isolated, better represented and better connected with their loved ones - noble and worth pursuing and I will do anything I can to add my contribution to achieving them."
The Seafarers' Trust is further supporting the Maritime Piracy Humanitarian Response Programme (MPHRP) by seconding its assistant administrative officer Roy Paul, at the expense of the Trust, to the post of full time MPHRP programme director for the next two years.
Source: ITF |
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