Actor, TV presenter and game
show host Flavio Insinna has donated his speedboat to Doctors
Without Borders (MSF) humanitarian NGO to help rescue refugees
crossing the Mediterranean, sources said Wednesday.
"We are very grateful to Flavio Insinna...for supporting our
action along the migration routes," MSF Italy chief Gabriele
Eminente said.
"To this day, thousands of people continue risking - and
losing - their lives in a bid to seek safety in Europe from
conflicts and poverty," he said.
"We are assessing...how best to employ this significant
donation," he said of the 14.80-meter vessel named Roxana.
The medical humanitarian group said it rescued 23,747
people at sea in 2015, and its staffers provided 100,000 medical
and psychological consultations on rescue ships and in Greece,
Italy, and the Balkans - the three main routes into Europe for
asylum seekers fleeing civil war and Islamist terror in North
Africa and the Middle East.
In Greece, MSF provides assistance to refugees at sea and
on land, including medical care, protection, sanitation
services, and basic necessities on the islands where asylum
seekers first make landfall, such as Lesbos and Samos.
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