As with Cyclone Winston in 2016, Sea Mercy's fleet of volunteer vessels, crews and disaster response leadership team in Fiji are standing by to assist the NDMO with emergency aid and medical team deliveries to the devastated remote island communities. Since 2012, Sea Mercy has played a critical role in the meeting the needs on these remote islands and often were the first to respond and arrive with aid on these 'at risk' remote islands.
With Category 5 Cyclone Harold completing its destructive pass through the South Pacific, Sea Mercy is once again mobilizing our emergency aid and volunteers to assist our island nation partners and their 'at risk' remote islands.
Imagine the logistical savings in precious fuel and disaster aid space if the first delivery by a disaster response transport vessel was two lightweight containers per family. Containers that would provide each family with emergency shelter, eliminate their ongoing drinking water needs and allow all future transport efforts to focus on delivering valuable supplies to rebuild their homes and communities (instead of thousands of plastic water bottles).
Register today to reserve your 2021 Rotation in the South Pacific! With our Floating Health Care Clinic (FHCC) vessels operating from May through October, we have 8 different rotation dates for our volunteers to chose from across the South Pacific. With medical, dental and ophthalmology care now being offered, there are incredible opportunities for all health care related volunteers to serve on each rotation.
Sea Mercy’s Amatasi Project links community groups in Australia (and around the world) with remote communities in Fiji and other Pacific island nations through the construction and donation of an ecologically and economically sustainable fishing vessels. To empower local communities to be self-sufficient in a sustainable manner and to support, educate and train local populations in the lost art of transport using the wind.
Although Sea Mercy's Volunteers are the life-blood of our programs, our incredible sponsors are heart that keeps our programs alive by pumping the resources needed to them. There are sponsors that require a return on their investment for their members and directors, and there sponsors that prefer that their gift or support remains invisible. Generation Strategies has been one of those silent sponsors.
Help us develop healthy, self-sustaining, and thriving communities across the South Pacific.
Follow the links to learn more about the RISE Program and Floating Health Care Clinic programs. Follow this link to learn more about our Disaster Response Work efforts, or the below button to make a donation.
It has been an ongoing labor of love for our Disaster Response teams and their efforts following Cyclone Yasa. With multiple return efforts and follow-up relief programs, it will take years for the remote villages to return to pre-Yasa conditions.
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With half of their houses and all of their crops destroyed, their fishing gear swept away and 11 fishing boats damaged, the 187 villagers of Yaro on Kia Island could use a helping hand. We are now over halfway towards our fundraising target goal of $8,000 to return to Yaro with material and skilled labour to repair their damaged fishing vessels and to provide more desperately needed fishing equipment.
A huge Vinaka Vakalevu (Thank You Very Much) to all of our TC Yasa volunteers and to everyone out there who is supporting us with donations to help.
Please consider a donation at:
http://www.seamercy.org/yasa.
Thank you!
Volunteering has never been this much fun or rewarding! Use the below Volunteer button to start your incredible adventure in 2020-2021.
We would like to recognize the following donors and partners for their support of Sea Mercy:
Byond Disaster Relief NZ
Island Cruising NZ
Gulf Harbor Radio
Keystone Law (Benjamin Maltby)
Yachts in Transit
Down Under Rally
Ocean Cruising Club
Seven Seas Cruising Association
South Pacific Cruising Guides
Vuda Marina
OmniAccess
Matson Shipping
Port Denarau Marina
Dykstra Naval Architects
Vitters Shipyard
Telecine - Creative Team
Rosie Holidays (Fiji)
NaDraki Weather (Fiji)
Generation Strategies
HSG, Incorporated
Island Cruising Association
Oyster Yachts
Oregon Lions Sight & Hearing Foundation
Superyacht Services Guide
Karmoie Sunglasses
Greenheart Project
LuminAID
Bellevue Breakfast Rotary Foundation
Lift Non-Profit Logistics
Easy Out Camp
Pearmund Cellars
Scenic Hotels
Multicultural Association of Southern Oregon
Predict Wind
MetBob - Weather Service South Pacific
The Eyes of the Heart Foundation
David & Tessa Irvin (s/v REWA)
Rick & Teri-Jo Rogge
Dr. Royce & Loriana Fonken
Tony & Brigid Whitton (Rosie Holidays)
Jonathan & Donna Robinson (s/v Chez Nous)
Staffan & Ellinor Ehde (s/v Salsa)
Courage & Shannon Winter (s/v Lil Explorers)
Stan & Valerie Creighton (s/v Buffalo Nickel)
Brian & Susan (s/v Darramy)
Lewis & Louise Hackett
Steve & Jenny Williams
Mike & Meredith Holguin
Al & Jill Wiggonton (s/v Dragonfly)
Suzanne Benloucif-Moore
Kim Parrish
Van Huynh
Dr. Peyton & Leslie Neatrour
Dr. Scott & Sarah Levison (DMD)
Grace Setiawan (DMD)
Dave & Lori Smith
Dr. Brian & Maryann Taylor
Dr. Clayborn Morris
Teresa Miller
Warren Family Dental (Madison, Wisconsin)
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