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Alarm Phone needs you…

On 11 October 2014, we inaugurated the Alarm Phone network, an emergency telephone line designed to request or accompany rescue operations on European sea and land routes.

After 9 years of activity, the number of people needing assistance continues to rise and, as a result, our telephone costs - one of the major expenses of the network :
- in 2020: €28.900
- in 2021: €54.800
- in 2022: €143.800

To ensure that our financial situation does not hinder our work, we have decided to launch an international fundraising campaign to mark our 9th anniversary.
We invite you to watch the explanatory video created for this campaign: https://youtu.be/GwXa645z_wg

Every donation can help us continue our mission and keep answering the telephone.

Crowdfunding: https://www.betterplace.org/en/projects/127506-alarmp-phone-sea-rescue-hotline-needs-donations-for-rising-phone-costs
Donations via bank transfer or PayPal here: https://alarmphone.org/en/donate/

Please distribute this campaign widely to your friends, family and camarades, to groups interested in these issues, and to anyone else who you feel are sympathetic to our cause. Thank you ❤️

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- Twitter: https://twitter.com/alarm_phone?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor
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- have a look at our website to find reports on differents regions: https://alarmphone.org/en/