Proactiva Open Arms
![Òscar Camps - @Campsoscar Image shared by Oscar Camps on Twitter of the rescue carried out by Open Arms.](https://nonprofit.xarxanet.org/sites/nonprofit.xarxanet.org/files/styles/xn19_responsive_image/public/oscar_camps.jpeg?itok=Oiq-n8S2&c=c63db7cb3ea9a88e4e7b4f4698163c4b)
Six people have died as a result of the shipwreck of a small boat in the Central Mediterranean, one of them a six-month-old baby, who had been urgently evacuated by the ship of the Badalona-based NGO.
![Cartas mojadas Òscar Camps, in a photogram of the film.](https://nonprofit.xarxanet.org/sites/nonprofit.xarxanet.org/files/styles/xn19_responsive_image/public/cartas_mojadas_fotograma_1.png?itok=O1fug1dI&c=ca1532bfefc92010aad5bc75af1707a6)
Paula Palacios, the film’s director, joins the NGO on a tough mission to tell a story about life and death on the deadliest migratory route on the planet.
![Open Arms Oscar Camps, the director and founding member of Open Arms.](https://nonprofit.xarxanet.org/sites/nonprofit.xarxanet.org/files/styles/xn19_responsive_image/public/oscar_camps_2.jpg?itok=8pUFHQG3&c=95770adf8ce53b2668899166f6c1f7b1)
The director and founding member of Open Arms warns that with rescue vessels stopping their activity, thousands are drowning in the Mediterranean.
![Miriam Núñez 'Blue. What hides the horizon?' it’s a book for kids and adults.](https://nonprofit.xarxanet.org/sites/nonprofit.xarxanet.org/files/styles/xn19_responsive_image/public/conte_blau_que_amaga_lhoritzo_3.jpeg?itok=3jVjLrGG&c=9f18a9b10d477652b750a2de410de9be)
‘Blue. What hides the horizon?’ is written both in Catalan and English and all the benefits go to the Spanish NGO Open Arms.
![Proactiva Open Arms. The NGO have invested in small and continued repairs.](https://nonprofit.xarxanet.org/sites/nonprofit.xarxanet.org/files/styles/xn19_responsive_image/public/open_arms_0.jpg?itok=rzNCUAvN&c=7d12da10a0090777894575ed22665e83)
With the efforts of the NGO in danger, the founder, Òscar Camps, asks for help in order to face a definitive repair of the boat or to be able to buy a new one. Two economically unbearable situations in the current context.
![Òscar Camps in front of the Open Arms tied to the port of Barcelona on Monday.](https://nonprofit.xarxanet.org/sites/nonprofit.xarxanet.org/files/styles/xn19_responsive_image/public/oscar_camps._el_periodico.jpg?itok=NUaUN7NC)
The director of this Catalan NGO, Òscar Camps, criticizes the "political decision" of the ship's blockage and announces mobilizations if it is not misleading.
![60 sub-Saharan migrants reach Barcelona in a legal safe way](https://nonprofit.xarxanet.org/sites/nonprofit.xarxanet.org/files/styles/xn19_responsive_image/public/son_felicos.jpg?itok=5O3AnOHn)
‘Stop Mare Mortum’ platform denounces the intended media coverage of the 60 sub-Saharan migrants’ arrival in Barcelona’s harbour
![Golfo Azzurro sailed on 24 December / Photo: Oriol CanalsGolfo Azzurro](https://nonprofit.xarxanet.org/sites/nonprofit.xarxanet.org/files/styles/xn19_responsive_image/public/golfo_azzurro_parteix_la_nit_de_nadal_des_de_bcn._oriol_canals_0.jpg?itok=ADFX75dT)
The Catalan NGO, on a new and larger vessel than Astral, plans to rescue 35,000 people in the Mediterranean this winter, a figure that is similar to last year’s.