The Mission Fund Malta active in volunteer sending

Volunteer sending programmes are very often part of development cooperation or education projects of European development NGOs. Among the new EU member state, Maltese NGDOs are among those with a lot of experience in volunteer sending. In the following, one of the members of the Maltese NGDO platform SKOP is introducing its activities in this field:

The Mission Fund is a lay catholic organisation founded in 1984 with the aim of helping Maltese Missionaries serving in over 40 countries. The Mission Fund sends EUR 1,200.00 to each missionary on a roster basis. Since 1992 it carried out several projects in many developing countries. A group of around 25 volunteers each year answers to a request made by one of the missionaries to carry out a project in a respective country.

Projects of the last years include a Fish farm in Guatemala built in 2007 which is now producing food, generates jobs; and with the profits made through these activities, the people were provided with a clinic and a resident Medical Doctor. In 2008, a school was built in Tanzania which is now already operating with the first 92 first year students.

This year, 2010, a group of volunteers will be answering to the request made by Sr. Maria Borda, a gynaecologist (Medical Missionaries of Mary, MMM) running a hospital with 170 beds in Singida, Tanzania. There the group will build an extension of the hospital, not only in order to increase the number of beds, but also to be able to host a number of doctors to serve in this hospital.

For more information please visit http://www.missionfund.org.mt/ or contact Charles Decelis, decelis_charles@hotmail.com
Read more about the Maltese NGDO platform SKOP at: http://www.skopmalta.org/

Photo: Makiungu-hospital-Tanzania

Information provided by Charles Decelis, Mission Fund