The ITF Seafarers’ Trust has made a USD $55,000 emergency grant to enable local unions to help the families of those who have died or are in a serious condition, following a release of noxious chlorine gas at the port of Aqaba, Jordan this week.
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INDIA – With the country s health system teetering on the brink of collapse in the wake of the unprecedented Indian Covid-19 outbreak, the International Transport Workers Federation (ITF) Seafarers Trust is offering much needed support by providing oxygen concentrators and emergency supplies for affected seafarers and their families.
The ITF Seafarers’ Trust says that hundreds of lives will be saved with the help of the two new emergency projects it is funding, which are to be delivered through two Indian-based seafarers’ unions. The two grants total £215,000 (US$305,085).