Special Thanks to Leo Nagtegaal for his continued support of Vega and her Missions of Mercy

A very special thanks to Leo Nagtegaal founder of Moduspec one of the Lloyds Register Group for his continued support of Vega and her yearly Missions of Mercy. Over the past few years Leo’s on going support has made possible several important improvements to the lives and standard of living for the many small communities we assist. His contributions range from establishing a metal workshop training center in Ermera East Timor to providing important medical equipment for our traditional midwife kits. Not only do these contributions continue to provide futures but also help insure good health for families to enjoy those futures.

On behalf of all the people you have helped; Thank you Leo for your kindness and understanding of what will really make a difference for those who are less fortunate.

Vega’s Image portfolio for the delivery season 2012

This is the URL link to Vega’s high rez Image portfolio for the delivery
season 2012. All images are 300 dpi in Adobe RGB color balanced for
offset printing. Please download the PDF file first to make selecting
from the many images an easier task. Once you have selected return to
this link under Images and download the high rez original according to
the index number in the PDF. All captions and other data are in the PDF
file. All images are copyright free for media use, but not for
commercial advertising without written permission.

Built at Olve, Norway in 1891-92, for over 100 years VEGA carried cargos of bricks, building stone, pig iron, and cement through some of the world’s roughest seas. Built for the North Sea and certified for Arctic trade, VEGA was famous for her strength and ability to carry loads other boats her size could not. Baltic traders like VEGA made some very impressive voyages including immigrants to North America and cargos to the Mediterranean, Africa and the Caribbean, some rounding Cape Horn to trade with Chile.

Vega’s 2012 Image portfolio is now available

This is the URL link to Vega’s high rez Image portfolio for the delivery season 2012. All images are 300 dpi in Adobe RGB color balanced for offset printing. Please download the PDF file first to make selecting from the many images an easier task. Once you have selected return to this link under Images and download the high rez original according to the index number in the PDF. All captions and other data are in the PDF file. All images are copyright free for media use, but not for commercial advertising without written permission.

www.sailvega.com/Image_Folder

Moduspec donates life saving equipment for rural midwives

   On behalf of the 100 traditional rural midwives who received new state of the art neo natal resuscitation and suction devices with this years new and upgraded midwife kits we would like to thank Moduspec for their kind donation. Those two devices are perhaps the most critical life saving pieces of equipment a midwife can have in her kit. They allow a midwife to clear the airway and start a new born breathing. They have already saved lives and will continue to do so for many years to come. Thank you Moduspec for your kindness and generosity towards those less fortunate people of our world.

Vega’s Humanitarian Mission statement

We on Vega believe that the development of remote communities can be achieved by a socially conscious group of people who make a commitment to develop and support human potential. Our efforts and achievements over the years are a clear testament to our faith in this vision.

As an open coalition of individuals and organizations, who share a common vision based on the belief that there is no greater endeavor than to serve, empower, and uplift fellow human beings the core of our philosophy is an unwavering commitment to humanitarian service and social progress for the common good.

As proactive ambassadors for the remote communities we assist Vega serves as a catalyst for action and a platform for direct assistance by working impartially with local communities to help target and achieve their own vision of how they wish their community to develop.

Vega has successfully transformed many of the underprivileged communities we serve. By providing the tools, supplies, and training needed to achieve better public health care, Education, and Community development we empower those communities to attain their full potential.

Round up of Humanitarian vessel Vega’s 2012 deliveries

Here is a very short round up of highlights from this years deliveries of donated educational and medical supplies. We measure our success by the number of communities we assist and the quality of that assistance. Working with remote communities often completely isolated from the outside world is not an easy mandate nor is trying to concentrate 4-5 months of intense effort into something short enough that it can actually be read an easy assignment. Our primary task is to help remote island communities improve their educational and medical services, but being the kind of people we are it seems that mandate has grown to simply “Aiding the remote communities we assist.” Each of the communities we support has different priorities and needs; each has a different level of development. That makes our work more difficult and much more interesting, it also opens many unforeseen portals of opportunity where we can help out.

The short version of this years deliveries is that thanks to your help we managed about 3,800 miles from the time we left Jakarta loaded with roughly 20 tons of supplies until we returned there. While in East Timor we received a 1. 5-ton top up of medical supplies from Australia delivered by the yachts in the Darwin to Dili yacht race. During that time we delivered over 100 very comprehensive Midwife (new & yearly resupply) and health worker kits, had Dr. Ruth Indira along with us doing workshops and individual training for Traditional Midwives, holding clinic every where we stopped, as well as giving dental hygiene classes in all the schools we visited. We delivered almost 400 kits-4-Kids bags directly to students in the poorest schools along our route, set up 3 complete school computer labs, provided basic educational materials and supplies for schools and teachers, placed first aid kits in many of the schools, delivered sets of vegetable seeds for kitchen gardens, tool sets to help maintain boat motors and generator sets, spare parts for sewing machines, helped save the lives of two small children by finding them proper medical treatment, were nominated official Good Will Ambassadors for the Banda Islands and for the Indonesian Ministry of Tourism, were officially recognized and assisted by the Indonesian Navy, re-discovered an old 15th century fort long thought lost on Gunung Api, produced a documentary about the damage to coral reefs being caused by Dynamite fishing, and visited an active volcano, all while trying our best to keep Vega up and running on a shoe string budget. There you have the headlines, but not at all the complete list of our accomplishments this year.
Our yearly route is a circle with every stop over playing an important part in what we do. Half the year we are trying our best to find the materials needed to deliver and the other half we are out delivering those materials to the people who need them and gathering new lists of what is needed for the next year. Accomplishing our missions while keeping Vega alive and in good health is a full time 24/7/365 job, but one we find immensely rewarding on a personal and spiritual level.

120 year old sailing vessel Vega wants to return to Norwegian regestery

 

Humanitarian aid vessel, Vega Well, today was a very busy day what with getting the topmast
back up and loads of things back in their place and that was just until
15:30 when we had a visit from Mr. Trond Giske who is the Minister of
Trade and Industry for Norway. He is on a
fact-finding tour in Indonesia and, after hearing so much about VEGA and her award winning humanitarian work,
wanted to see her for himself. We were very pleased to welcome him on board above
all because he is exactly the man who can make it possible for VEGA to
return to her original flag – that of Norway – remaining as an historic
vessel. This has been a dream of ours for many years and just
perhaps now there may  be a chance for it to become a reality. 

Full story of Vega and her work available on request along with images in high rez 300dpi Adobe RGB

If you agree with us that VEGA should be returned to her home flag, please send Trond Giske, Minister of Trade and
Commerce in Norway, an e-mail at these addresses:

nhdinfo@nhd.dep.no, 

Oystein.solvang@nhd.dep.no

For our friends in the press your attention can make all the difference. We will be happy to assist your efforts in any way we can.

Built at Olve, Norway in 1891-92, for over 120 years VEGA carried cargos of bricks, building stone, pig iron, and cement through some of the world’s roughest seas. Built for the North Sea and certified for Arctic trade, VEGA was famous for her strength and ability to carry loads other boats her size could not. Baltic traders like VEGA made some very impressive voyages including immigrants to North America and cargo to the Mediterranean, Africa and the Caribbean, some rounding Cape Horn to trade with Chile. Vega now devotes her time to delivering donated medical and educational supplies to some of the worlds most remote island communities.