Hello, I haven't been here for a few days. It's because we've been quite busy at the Seafarer help office. I couldn't think about anything apart from my working escapade,- tiping, sending, putting list of the tatrgeted countries together. It sounds slightly military perhaps, but we "target" countries only in case of the promotion compaine, if we plan to attack them with the overwhelming stream of green-blue posters, Seafarer help cards and offers of assistance.

Now the first wave of such a compaine has reached cyber shores of ex-soviet states. Let's see what kind of responce we get. For the time being however, we will have to sit and wait keeping ourselves occupied with the more immediate events. For example with the desperate for our help seafarer from South Asia, who is not only very stressed, but also speaks limited English. He is even slightly angry with me that I don't speak Tagalog. But it so happens that in my part of the world this language is not one of the most commonly spoken.

So, when we finally reach a mutual understanding and get to the bottom of his problem with the bold help of my Chinese colleague, it feels like a victory. Well, perhaps a small one, but still a victory, that hopefully will lead to a bigger ones in the future. Future when we will recieve a joyful e-mail or a phone call from our Filipino sailor saying that everything is now all right. To bring this day closer, we all will need to apply boldness, creativity, competence,integrity and first of all compassion. If we manage to find enough of this wonderful human fuel within ourselves every day, then working for charity will be easy.