Migrants of the Mediterranean and
Mediterranea Saving Humans Come Together
For “People, Not Numbers.”

The US and Italy-based Humanitarian Storytelling organization and the Italian NGO
stand together as friends in support of humanity in the Mediterranean.

ROME, ITALY 29 September 2020 – Migrants of the Mediterranean (MotM), the Italian NGO Mediterranea Saving Humans and its US-based sister organization, Saving Humans USA, announce their collaboration in support of humanity in the Central Mediterranean migration theater with the “People, Not Numbers” campaign.

With the increased activity in the Mediterranean in summer and fall 2020, it is more urgent than ever to strengthen the cause of humanity, rather than emphasize the tick of arrival numbers in Italy’s ports across the news feeds.

“People, Not Numbers” is a push to humanize the individual people who make the dangerous sea crossing after escaping war-torn and politically unstable Libya, where gross human rights abuses against people in the migrant community have been documented for years.

Mediterranea Saving Humans monitors the Central Mediterranean and, when needed, comes in rescue of the people whose stories are like those readers can find in the Migrants of the Mediterranean Journey Story Archive. Together, they are committed to the cause of saving vulnerable lives at sea and capturing the essential, yet fragile stories of each and every person who comes ashore.

Every human being matters, and they have faces and stories that have come to define an era, which has been made more essential yet in the face of the global Covid-19 health crisis when borders have been closed.

Follow the organizations and their call to save humanity with “People, Not Numbers” at:
@migrantsofthemed and @mediterranearescue/@savinghumansusa on Instagram
@migrantsofthemed and @Mediterranearescue/@SavingHumansUSA on Facebook
@migrantsotmed and @RescueMed/@SavingHumansUSA on Twitter

And visit www.migrantsofthemed.com to read every Journey Story and mediterranearescue.org to learn more about Mediterranea Saving Humans.

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About Migrants of the Mediterranean
Migrants of the Mediterranean (MotM) is an Humanitarian Storytelling organization that documents the individual journeys of people who have crossed continents, countries, desert and sea from their countries of origin to the Sicilian island of Lampedusa, where they are brought post-rescue after escaping Libya. They are also greeted increasingly across greater Italy, Germany and the EU.

The primary mission of MotM is to give dignity to the world’s most vulnerable and to ensure a platform where they may be seen and heard. MotM creates an account for the historical record, and tracks its subjects––some since 2016––documenting all issues of the migrant experience in an effort to inform public policy, scholars and the media, and to provide a stable platform for migrants––the most marginalized of people––to find voice and, finally, home.

Migrants of the Mediterranean andMediterranea Saving Humans Come TogetherFor “People, Not Numbers.”

Migrants of the Mediterranean and
Mediterranea Saving Humans Come Together
For “People, Not Numbers.”