ICMA member the Seamen’s Church Institute of New York and New Jersey (SCI) gives a voice to seafarers who survived piracy. In a new series of YouTube video’s to be published online by the SCI, seafarers tell of their ordeal. In a press statement the SCI welcomes the maritime industry’s sharper focus on the effect [...]
ICMA members raise public awareness of seafarers and their welfare. The Sailors Society organised a “woolly hat” campaign in the United Kingdom for the week of 7th to 13th February, and many public figures donned warm knitted hats to show they care. In a statement the Sailors Society said: Seafarers have to battle with the [...]
Our faith inspires us to deliver diaconal care to all seafarers we meet. That means we go the extra mile to provide whatever enhances the wellbeing of seafarers. Their gratitude is humbling. Robert Wileman, Cape-Town based port chaplain of ICMA member Biblia Harbour Mission writes on his blog: Visiting an oil tanker in Table Bay [...]
Kimberly Karlshoej has stepped down as Director and Programme Officer of The TK Foundation. Ms Karlshoej, a dear friend of ICMA, writes: For the past nine years, I have been fully and passionately committed to making a positive difference to people’s lives in shaping and delivering the vision of The TK Foundation, and by engaging [...]
Registration to attend the ITF Seafarers Trust Seminar on Seafarers Welfare is essential. Administrative Officer of the ITF Seafarers Trust, Tom Holmer, has invited ICMA members to participate in a seminar on seafarers welfare. Tom Holmer wrote: For 30 years the International Transport Workers Federation Seafarers’ Trust has supported and funded seafarers’ welfare worldwide and [...]
When the Costa Concordia ran aground and the lives of passengers and crew were lost, the world’s focus was turned briefly to ships and the welfare of people of the sea. But as with all such events, the world soon moves on to other things. This coming week, Monday 13th February, marks the first month [...]
ICMA is unique in Christendom. ICMA Chairman, Douglas B. Stevenson, made the statement at the opening of the Tenth ICMA World Conference. ICMA is unique not only for being a thriving ecumenical organisation, but for its ecumenical scope. Its 27 members include representatives of almost every one of the traditions in the Christian faith. Ecumenical [...]
