The Friends of Gozo organised a fundraising dinner for various Gozitan charities including the Order of Malta Volunteers in Gozo.

The event was held at Ta’ Mena and was attended by many people especially foreigners and Gozitans who reside abroad. The Friends of Gozo chose Order of Malta Volunteers in Gozo as they wanted to assist a Gozo-based charity which is helping refugees in Gozo. The other two charities who also benefitted from this event were the Friends of the Sick and Elderly in Gozo and the Gozo Association for the Deaf.

On Friday 22nd August, during the Organ Donors Campaign in Ghajnsielem, Ms Nicola Vassallo representative of the Friends of Gozo presented the donation of € 1,700 to the Order of Malta Volunteers in Gozo. This donation has to go towards the purchasing of supplies including sanitary/hygiene products and spectacles to refugees from various African countries and the instruction of first aid to Ghanaian immigrants who work in the construction industry. There are over three hundred refugees residing in Gozo.

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The Order of Malta Volunteers in Gozo organised a collection of good-quality clothes and other items such as shoes and bedding for the Ghanaian missions led by Ghanaian asylum seekers who are currently residing in Gozo.

All items collected will be shipped in a container to Accra, then the items will be distributed in different villages in the remotest parts of the African country. This is the fourth year that the Order of Malta Volunteers in Gozo is involved in this particular project. Two months ago, another container full of such items was also sent; it has already arrived. This was sponsored by a shipping company and the Ghanaian’s themselves.

Last weekend collection was organised with the collaboration of the Xaghra Local Council which also supplied a truck to help with the operation. An Order of Malta tail lift vehicle was also utilized. We also wish to thank all those persons who assisted us with this mission.

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The Order of Malta Volunteers in Gozo met Mr Alfred Debattista President of the Transplant Support Group (Malta). The Transplants Group was organising an activity for patients/relatives in Gozo to commemorate persons who were donors. Mr Debattista thanked the Order of Malta for offering its services and supporting Transplant Group.

Transplant Support Group is of service and gives support to all persons who are recipients of an organ or tissue or are waiting to be transplanted with an organ.

Currently the Order of Malta Volunteers in Gozo is carrying out campaigns all over Gozo so that individuals would enrol as organ donors in collaboration with the Transplants Support Group. Such activities are being carried out in different parishes with the good coordination of Ms Manolita Farrugia. On Sunday 17th August another activity will be organised in Zebbug, Gozo during a youth activity organised by the parish and Fr Geoffrey G Attard.

The Order of Malta Volunteers in Gozo provided first aid assistance to the chain-bearers during the Good Friday Procession organised by St George’s Basilica in Victoria, Gozo. The team from the Order of Malta provided first aid and water to several persons who attended and participated in this holy event which started at 5.30pm and ended at 9.30pm.

Several elderly persons residing at homes for the elderly were taken out for an outing in the Order of Malta taillift minibus. The residents were also taken to Our Lady of Ta’ Pinu Shrine where they said the Rosary. After the short Pilgrimage, they were also taken for a short drive to Xlendi Bay where they relaxed on the promenade in front of the sea.

Yesterday St Joseph’s Feast, the Order of Malta Volunteers in Gozo had a busy day doing hospitaller works in different places of the island.

In the morning, the elderly residents of St Dominic’s Home in Victoria, were taken out for a Pilgrimage to the Sanctuary of St Joseph in Qala. The elderly were conveyed in the Order of Malta ambulift vehicle while members from the Catholic Action also provided a light car to convey walking patients. Coffees and drinks were served outside after the elderly attended Mass in the church.

In the afternoon, another group of Order of Malta Volunteers in Gozo, also visited the elderly at St Therese Home run by the Carmelites. The group led by the spiritual director Fr Geoffrey G Attard, also distributed oranges to the elderly who reside in the small nursing home which is a few meters away from the Knights’ Citadel. These visits to the elderly and house-bounds compliment the other works of charity including giving aid to the refugees and conveying patients to hospitals on a regular basis.

Currently the Order of Malta relief group on the island of Gozo, has made a public appeal to its well-wishers for furniture for three households who need furniture after separate cases of fire or roof-collapse.
 

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