{"id":5084743,"date":"2017-03-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-25T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ctlatinonews.com\/spanish-lifeguard-is-founder-of-a-group-that-saves-thousands-of-refugees\/"},"modified":"2017-03-25T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-03-25T04:00:00","slug":"spanish-lifeguard-is-founder-of-a-group-that-saves-thousands-of-refugees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/latinonewsnetwork.com\/ctln\/2017\/03\/25\/spanish-lifeguard-is-founder-of-a-group-that-saves-thousands-of-refugees\/","title":{"rendered":"Spanish Lifeguard Is Founder Of  A Group That Saves Thousands Of Refugees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Photo credit: Radiocable.com<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nWhen Spanish lifeguard Oscar Camps traveled to the Greek Island of Lesbos to help rescue migrants from drowning in September 2015, he was overwhelmed by the magnitude of the crisis\u2014hundreds of men, women and children desperately throwing themselves onto barely seaworthy boats to escape from Turkey to Greece.<br \/>\n&#8220;When we got to Lesbos we realized that no one was there,&#8221; Camps told NBC Latino, &#8220;there were no volunteer organizations or governmental institutions, and people were drowning. So we had to start working fast. And on our first day, we rescued people with almost no gear\u2014swim fins and a neoprene wetsuit.&#8221;<br \/>\nSince then, two islands in the Mediterranean\u2014Lesbos in Greece and Lampedusa in Italy\u2014have become battlefronts in a much wider political war about border security and immigration. Camps used his life savings to found the nonprofit <span style=\"color: #0066cc\">Proactiva Open Arms<\/span>, an organization that helped over 140,000 migrants reach land safely. It has also rescued another 20,000 caught adrift, trapped on coastal cliffs and in direct danger of drowning.<br \/>\n<em><strong>To read full article: http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/latino\/spanish-lifeguard-founded-group-has-saved-thousands-refugees-n737726?cid=sm_npd_nn_fb_lt<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; When Spanish lifeguard Oscar Camps traveled to the Greek Island of Lesbos to help rescue migrants from drowning in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","ghostkit_customizer_options":"","ghostkit_custom_css":"","ghostkit_custom_js_head":"","ghostkit_custom_js_foot":"","ghostkit_typography":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[986,987],"tags":[1259],"ppma_author":[565],"class_list":["post-5084743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ma-lifestyle","category-ri-lifestyle","tag-hispanics-and-refugeessyrian-refugees"],"acf":[],"mb":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Jermaine Smith","author_link":"https:\/\/latinonewsnetwork.com\/ctln\/author\/jay\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"&nbsp; 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