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A14 LOCAL
Tuesday 2 May 2017

Visit the World’s Largest Floating Book Fair Onboard the Logos Hope

ORANJESTAD - The world’s before the ship departs for
largest floating book fair is Jamaica, crewmembers
in Oranjestad, Aruba from are excited to see more of
April 21 through May 7th! the island and continue to
st
With a volunteer crew of share hope and encour-
400 people representing agement to everyone they
over 60 nationalities, Lo- meet.
gos Hope travels to ports MV Logos Hope is oper-
around the world to bring ated by GBA Ships e.V.,
knowledge, help and an international, chari-
hope. table organization regis-
The book fair has wel- tered in Germany. Since
comed over 8,000 people 1970, the organization has
already - and expects to welcomed over 45 million
see more in the coming visitors up the gangways in
days. over 150 countries and ter-
Logos Hope last visited ritories around the world.
Aruba in early 2010and has MV Logos Hope will open
since visited ports in the to the public from April 21st
Middle East, Southeast Asia through May 7th at Gate
and Africa. This second visit 7 of the Oranjestad cruise
is different from the last: not terminal. Opening hours
only is the book fair open are as follows: Tuesdays
to the public, but the on- Aruba’s acting governor, Yvonne Lacle-Dirksz and Captain Chris Hughes (UK) walk through the through Saturdays 10:00
board theatre which seats parade of nations to begin Logos Hope’s official opening ceremony on the island. AM – 9:00 PM; Sundays 2:00

over 400 people is also in One crewmember, Sandra PM – 9:00 PM. The ship is
full operation. Simplice (France), said “It CLOSED on Mondays.
Visitors can purchase tick- is a very powerful training, Entrance fee is 1 florin per
ets to a variety of shows and it had a powerful im- person. Adults 65 and over
and conferences, such as pact.” Sandra believes the enter for free; children un-
the live theatre produc- students learned not only der 12 years old enter for
tion based on the novel how to protect themselves, free, but must be accom-
The Lion, the Witch and the but how to inform and help panied by an adult. Tickets
Wardrobe. Crewmembers others. for onboard events can be
have also travelled around With a little over a week left purchased onboard.q
the island to present the
ship in schools and church-
es.
Fifteen Logos Hope crew-
members shared about hu-
man trafficking during a vis-
it to IBERO American High
School. This seminar aims
to “traffic proof” students
by informing them about
the dangers of human traf-
ficking and the reality that
many people around the
world are trapped in the
industry against their will.