Volunteer Sliema

Volunteer Sliema is a Partnership between SOS Malta and the Core Platform and is supported by Sliema Local Council and Capua Hospital. This multi-stakeholder local partnership will develop an innovative community-based response to the needs of vulnerable elderly people to ensure a reduction of their social exclusion, while contributing to a reawakening of the spirit of self-giving and active citizenship within the community through the development of a local volunteer scheme.

This project will be a flagship project to celebrate 25 years of SOS Malta. This project will seek to ensure vulnerable elderly and people with a physical disability feel more mobile and able to access healthcare and essential services, as well as engage in leisure and community activities.

Additionally, the project will seek to provide emotional support to these groups of people through the creation of a Community Volunteers Network. This pilot project will build upon both the existing VolServ project and Tal-Kultura – the volunteer programme for Valletta 2018, which together have approximately 500 volunteers. The scheme will also utilise the existing SOS Malta car and the wealth of volunteer management experience SOS Malta holds, and will contribute to the SOS Malta core pillar of work of social inclusion and solidarity with vulnerable groups. The proposed pilot project would take place in Sliema. This area is one of the main shopping hubs with a wide catchment area.

The project will include three key elements: (1) The development of a local volunteer network of 20-30 volunteers to ensure a pool of support for the elderly; (2) The development of a community transport scheme to promote the mobility of the elderly and those with a disability; (3) The establishment of a local stakeholder network who support the implementation of the scheme.

For more information kindly contact SOS Malta on info@sosmalta.org or CORE Platform on matteo.privitelli@core.org.mt.