{"id":89,"date":"2014-11-09T04:38:01","date_gmt":"2014-11-09T03:38:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orderofmalta-malta.org.mt\/voto\/?page_id=89"},"modified":"2019-07-15T20:21:09","modified_gmt":"2019-07-15T19:21:09","slug":"us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/orderofmalta.mt\/voto\/us\/","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"

Volunteers of the Order was established in 1987, over thirty years ago, as a peripheral\u00a0organisation of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta. The aims and principals of the Volunteers of the Order are to enroll\u00a0and organize its Members to operate on a voluntary basis within the spirit of the Order of Malta,\u00a0particularly in the fields of spiritual, social and medical welfare, thereby upholding the Order\u2019s values\u00a0of tuition fidei<\/em> and obsequium pauperum<\/em>.<\/p>\n

What started as a small group of youths has developed over the years into a flourishing organisation\u00a0with no less than 80 Members to date (and a further 20 Aspirants), most of whom contribute\u00a0regularly to the Volunteers of the Order’s events and commitments.<\/p>\n

Volunteers of the Order is very active in many fields. Many of it\u2019s Members participate in the Order\u2019s Annual\u00a0Pilgrimage to Lourdes and Volunteers of the Order contributes yearly towards the cost of this Pilgrimage as well as\u00a0fully sponsoring the special Children\u2019s Programme in Lourdes. The International Summer Camp\u00a0organised by the Sovereign Military Order of Malta and held every year in a different country for youths with learning\u00a0disabilities is another event that Volunteers of the Order contributes towards and several of it\u2019s Members participate\u00a0by attending and helping to look after our young patients. In recent years, Volunteers of the Order has established a ‘Follow Up Committee’ which organizes several events each year where past patients who have\u00a0been to Lourdes with the Order are invited to meet up with us and fellow patients. This has been a\u00a0great success and we have built truly lasting friendships with many of these patients, especially the\u00a0most needy and lonely. Added to this, Volunteers of the Order also donates monies and hampers at Christmas time\u00a0to deserving Organisations and individuals. To do all this, Volunteers of the Order organizes two or three fund raising\u00a0functions each year to raise funds to cover the costs of all our activities. Apart from this Volunteers of the Order is\u00a0keen to emphasize the importance of spirituality amongst it\u2019s Members and to this end, organizes\u00a0two topical talks every year generally during Lent and Advent.<\/p>\n

Volunteers of the Order is constantly looking for new, energetic Members who feel they can contribute to it\u2019s cause.\u00a0For further information please contact the Secretary of Volunteers of the Order at voto.masmom@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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Volunteers of the Order was established in 1987, over thirty years ago, as a peripheral\u00a0organisation of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta. The aims and principals of the Volunteers of the Order are to enroll\u00a0and organize its Members to operate on a voluntary basis within the spirit of the Order of Malta,\u00a0particularly in the fields […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"guten_post_layout_featured_media_urls":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orderofmalta.mt\/voto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/89"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/orderofmalta.mt\/voto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/orderofmalta.mt\/voto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orderofmalta.mt\/voto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orderofmalta.mt\/voto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/orderofmalta.mt\/voto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/89\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":666,"href":"https:\/\/orderofmalta.mt\/voto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/89\/revisions\/666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orderofmalta.mt\/voto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}