page_title: Proactiva Open Arms
section_title: Origins
hierarchical_section_title: Proactiva Open Arms / Origins
caption_attribution_description: Català: Òscar Camps, de la ONG Proactiva Open Arms, durant una conferència a la Jornada Camins de Llibertat, celebrada al CaixaForum l'octubre de 2017.
context_page_description: Proactiva Open Arms is a Spanish NGO devoted to search and rescue at sea. Set up in October 2015, it carried out its first rescue action that same month from its base on the Greek island of Lesbos.
  As well as maintaining a permanent base on Lesbos, the NGO carries out its rescue operations from three ships, a sailing yacht Astral, the Golfo Azzurro and Open Arms.
  In 2016, Proactiva won the H.E.R.O. Award for Outstanding Team Contribution to a Maritime SAR Operation at the first edition of the UK-based International Maritime Rescue Federation's H.E.R.O. Awards for their participation in saving the lives of over 200 people who had capsized off the north shore of Lesbos.
  The NGO has received several other awards, including the European Citizen's Prize awarded by the European Parliament in 2016. Its founder, Òscar Camps, was named Catalan of the Year in 2015.
context_section_description: As an NGO, Proactiva developed from Pro-Activa Serveis Aquàtics, a company providing lifeguard and water rescue services, located in Badalona, Spain. Due to the refugee crisis and the several high-profile deaths at sea, Oscar Camps travelled to Lesbos in September 2015, along with three other volunteers.
caption: Òscar Camps, Proactiva Open Arms founder, in 2017.
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