Migrants in Spain and Water in Colombia: The Week in Global-Affairs Writing
(WorldNews Spain)

Rescuing Migrants from a Couch in Galicia Gregory Beals | Foreign Policy `Over the past four years, De Andrés says she has built a network of about 3,000 refugees and volunteers without ever leaving her hometown of Vigo. She calls it `Red Alert`-a play on red, the Spanish word for net or network. De Andrés is not a trained aid worker, but her collaborative efforts to track people attempting to cross the eastern Aegean have helped shine a light on urgent cases, providing assistance to those in need. Proactiva Open Arms, the Spanish lifeguard NGO that has plucked thousands of refugees from rubber rafts in the eastern Aegean and the Mediterranean Sea, credits her with having saved many...