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Prize WISTA Italy 2011 is assigned to the director of the Apostolate of Mare Italiano
Accomplice the economic crisis, multiplies the demands for solidarity and assistance regarding the seafarers
December 5, 2011
Prize WISTA Italy 2011 is assigned don to Giacomo Martino, director of the Apostolate of Mare Italiano, the generous foundation that assists the sailors of all the nationalities, for the profuse engagement in the safeguard of the dignity of the seafarers.
Friday slid to Genoa, within an organized evening from WISTA (Women's International Shipping & Trading Association) Italy, whose president is Daniela Fara, director of the Italian Academy of the Merchant navy, the prize is delivered don to Giacomo Martino who has dedicated to all marine abandoned and the suffering ones to it, a plague which it has consecrated its life and its engagement.
The cases of abandonment of ships with crews, by shipowners on board unscrupulous - it has remembered WISTA Italy - are a recurrent drama and unfortunately most times hidden in the panorama of international the marine transport.
To the Apostolate of the sea 26 are under responsibility alleviate of the Stella Maris, scattered in the ports of all Italy. Under this Star, solidarities and acceptance are put into practice every day through volunteers purposely formed: the visits on board sometimes reveal situations to the limits of the survival, where food and water lack.
WISTA Italy has evidenced that, accomplice the economic crisis, the demands for solidarity and participation has been multiplied and, was almost a script, the cases ends of abandoned crews happens with the same modalities. Considering the difficult and inhumane consequences in which the marine ones come to find themselves, don Giacomo Martino has placed side by side them to the phenomenon of piracy.
In the course of the evening the director of the Apostolate of the Sea has intentional to remember also the champion of the marine rights of Raina Junacovic, wife of the official dead wireless operator with to another 30 people, in the shipwreck of the Seagull, 1974. Its battle against the shipowners shadow has lasted all the life: it is thanks to she - it has said - if today the marine ones travel sure.
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Prize WISTA Italy 2011 is assigned don to Giacomo Martino, director of the Apostolate of Mare Italiano, the generous foundation that assists the sailors of all the nationalities, for the profuse engagement in the safeguard of the dignity of the seafarers.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
