HUMANITARIAN
PILOTS INITIATIVE

Renato Kaiser is a spoken word artist, author, Swiss Poetry Slam Champion, satirist and, since this summer, HPI's "Schutz(B)engel". You can also find the friendly man from eastern Switzerland on Facebook, Twitter oder Instagram. Here is his commentary on the current situation in the Mediterranean:

Sarah Serafini in an interview with Fabio: Fabio Zgraggen from Appenzell is co-founder of the humanitarian pilot initiative. His mission: to stop watching the dying off the European coast. In summer 2016, he and his team flew the first sea rescue flight over the Mediterranean. But now the Maltese authorities are standing in the 33-year-old's way. They are preventing the pilot from further rescue flights. You can read the whole interview here.