Seafarers are ordinary people like you and me, with family and friends, needs, worries and concerns, but unlike us, they are in a foreign land where they are strangers and do not always feel safe. Their jobs are hard and dangerous, they work long hours, and they are away from home for many weeks or months.

It can be a lonely and isolated life, particularly when there is no one with whom to share a worry or a concern, nobody who can help.