Bay Harbour: October 05, 2016

PAGE 16 BAY HARBOUR
Wednesday October 5 2016
Our People
Providing welfare and a home
Jessica Armstrong, 28, has been managing the
Lyttelton Seafarers’ Centre with her husband
Rob for over a year. Annabelle Dick chats to her
about the centre’s role in the community and the
people it serves
So first of all, what does the
Lyttelton Seafarers’ Centre do?
We provide a centre for all
seafarers, so anyone who works
on ships or in the port and we
give them a home away from
home. We give them a place to
hang out, we provide free Wi-Fi
as well so they can contact their
friends and family because calling
home that is the main thing
they want to do when they get
off the ship. We exchange foreign
cash into New Zealand currency
so they can buy stuff at the
supermarket, or whatever they
need, because there’s no bank
in Lyttelton. We give away free
warm clothes . . . we’ve given
away about 50 winter coats and
hats and scarves. We also provide
them with free food and drinks.
Basically, its all of that and we
give them someone to talk to if
they want to talk to someone.
How many people do you get
coming through your doors?
We fluctuate a lot depending
on the amount of ships in the
port, our maximum is about
28 and some nights we only
get a handful. On average we
get about 12 people per night.
We opened in July last year
and we’ve served close to 3500
people from all over the world.
The main places they come from
are the Philippines, Russia and
Ukraine.
You must have heard a lot of
interesting stories then?
Yes, they’re all a very different
bunch of people and we have
them all in at the same time so
it makes for a very interesting
centre.
How many people work at the
centre?
We’ve got 20 regular volunteers
at the moment and we have
about 10 people in training who
have just started their training.
Everyone is a volunteer.
What were seafarers doing
before the centre existed?
They used to hang out outside
the library where there was free
Wi-Fi but they didn’t have any
AT WORK: Jessica Armstrong with Filipino seamen at the Lyttelton Seafarers’ Centre.
shelter. When we first started we
walked up the road to go and
collect them and they were sitting
outside in very cold temperatures
in winter and they just
wanted to contact home. We give
them somewhere to be because
there’s not a lot open in Lyttelton
at night unless you’re a bar.
What kind of feedback do
you get from the seamen you
have come in?
They do really appreciate what
we do and even if they do speak
very little English they express
it non-verbally with big smiles.
Most of them thank us at the end
of the night. A lot of the Filipino
men are away from their young
families so they’ll get on Skype
at the centre and show us their
families and their babies so that’s
really lovely to see when they
might not be able to otherwise.
As it’s a free service, how important
are time and monetry
contributions?
We provide them with free
Wi-Fi and we have a heat pump
and things like that and we
don’t have high costs as such but
we need to fund the continual
running costs.
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