A HUMANITARIAN AND MARITIME SEARCH AND RESCUE ORGANIZATION
SOS MEDITERRANEE is an international civil organization dedicated to saving lives at sea. Founded in 2015, the humanitarian initiative emerged as a response to the escalating humanitarian crisis in the Central Mediterranean, as well as the discontinuation of Mare Nostrum, a rescue operation launched by the Italian Government that ended in 2014, and the subsequent EU disengagement from search and rescue operations in the area. It was established by a group of European citizens, including seafarers and humanitarians, who were deeply concerned about the rising death toll among people attempting to cross the Mediterranean Sea in search of safety and a better future.
