Logos the ship of hope and care

The human existence in this life is quite short, but the momories of the great deeds and onestity are the moments that remains in mind and soul of people even were past long ago on another bridge of the life. Despite everything there are still people loving and taking care about people who need care, hope and a reason to struglle with the problems of cotidian living and the volunteers from ship Logos shows an elocvent example of this courage and kindness.

Last week coming back from Dubai i had the rare fortune to have a nice conversation during the road with one young man from Newcastle, Australia, who told me couple things about one volunteer project called Logos, hope and care in which he was taking part for allmost a year. Despite all my reserves regarding NGOs, i understood in the last couple years the importance of different this kind of non-profit organizations which gives the oportunities to young boys and girls descovering better the world, the comunities, the society and the secret conectiontions between people through comunication and interaction. Years past by and now i find myself in a totaly different enviroment, with a different religion, mentality and a pot of cultures from all over the world. Just an open mind, well intended atitude and couple of strong goals graved deep in my mind and soul made me feel free and lose the pressure of new. In this way  i made new friends and built the bridges of understanding with arabs, hindus, shrilankas, philipines, pakistani, egiptians, morocans, tunisians and so on. It was a nice experience to descover this groupe who are giving to people around the world help(donating books, medical equipment), care(organizing workshops, trainings, rebuilding the schools, hospitals) and hope for a better live.

As i said The program Logos- help, care and hope is an international volunteering project which started more then 40 years ago, ideea belong to a generous american who started everything by delivering books by truck in India. Meanwhile the projects grows, the number of volunteers encrease as well as the number of persons willing to help and donate money and goods. I was really emoresed by that thing that the parents of that boy from the bus they meet and falled in love almost twenty years ago during this project. I couldn't hide a smile today when i descovered that there were another german couple who were preparing to celebrate their weeding on the ship the day i was there. 

More about the project: on the board thare are like 400 persons from more then 52 countries, all of them a volunteers. A person who want to aply for this project can chose a period starting from three to six monthes up tu a year or two with the oportunity to extend this experience. All people on the board are working, except babies, couse as i suposed to let you know there are as well families on board. There are 5 different departament such as: kitchen(the galley), acomodation, enginecomandament, workind on deck and book shop. Becouse there are people from different countries the common language of comunication is english, and between  the work and the free time there are diferent activities of teambuilding, trainings and the preparation for events and the missions from up coming place to visit and help. On board  there is a big dining rooms where the crew taking their meals three times a day, its organized as a bufet so everbody can had the iteam they prefer or they use to have back home, it's a tough mission for cook to prepare the food for a such international and multicultural crew but they a trying their best to make all of them happy, use to tell me Katerina Lynch the Media officer of this program, during the excursion on the ship. I have never been before on the board of a such big ship and i was epressed visiting the comanding aree where a meet two nice ladies, one from Australia, one from Great Britain, who told me that this volunteering experience is the great oportunity for those who loves the sea and ocean, to gain the experience and the hours of working on board, that will help them to join a sailng companies, or comercial ships afterwards, speanding less time and money for studies, couse they work, study and getting better on this field every single hour, day, week, month or year.

Another person, gary told me that being on the ship is more than a volunteering proces, its an a great oportunity to get more confidence in yourself and in your team, is a oportunity to travel and try to make life of other people better and brighter, things that brings a lot of happyness, and peace for each of the participant of this project. 

By the end i meet again the boy from the bus we had a short talk, i bought a book, some souvenirs and left this ship of hope and care with a strong desire somehow to join this team at least for three monthes whenever int the future, couse to bring a smile on a face, and make some people happy is a great miracle and a action that make this world better.