COVID-19 Response – Sailors' Society South Africa

Dedicated Helpline for Seafarers

22 August, 2020

Chaplains, COVID-19 Response, Crisis Response

Just a reminder of the details for our dedicated helpline for seafarers and their families. Call: +1 938 222 8181 Chat: www.wellnessatsea.org/covid-19 This is a 24 hour, confidential helpline. Seafarers can call in and the team will endeavour to put them through to an advisor who can speak in their first language if they wish to. The team can offer advice, guidance, and potentially grants for financial support. Seafarers can call the line and then have their call returned so…

A Prayer for When You are Waiting on the Lord 

17 August, 2020

Administrator

COVID-19 Response, Trauma

I wait for the LORD, my soul waits, and in his word I hope” (Psalm 130:5). Are you currently in a place of waiting? Perhaps you are waiting for a job, for healing, for restoration in a relationship or marriage,or for wisdom to know where you should go next. That place of waiting is a place we are all familiar with. It’s a place we find ourselves in often over the course of our lives. Though it’s a familiar place…

Providing Free Mental Health and Wellbeing support for Seafarers

23 July, 2020

Administrator

Chaplains, COVID-19 Response, Sailors' Society

As the Covid lockdown came into effect we were given access to the SEASPAN fleet and started contacting and coming alongside the men and women on board via Skype conversations. This started on the 28th March with our chaplains in Durban, Cape Town and Port Elizabeth participating in this new way of presenting such a ‘ministry of presence’ world wide – we have now extended this by sending out daily messages of encouragement and hope by WhatsApp and full Sunday…