The NGO Open Arms rescued 374 people in the Mediterranean in just four days last week. It is the second mission the organization has undertaken in the central Mediterranean this year, after rescuing 9 more people in January, in an operation where their ship was anchored and without permits to sail for 20 days. Open Arms' spokesperson in Italy, Valentina Brinis, explains that in this mission, the 111th, they rescued "many families and children". The youngest were two babies: one a month old and the other twelve weeks old.