On December 27 in the heart of Rome, Order members and volunteers of the Grand Priory of Rome at the Casa di Rodi, seat of the Italian Association offered hot lunches to the homeless, feeding almost 200 street people in two shifts. After lunch gift bags of clothing, sleeping bags and other treats were distributed. [...]

Within the framework of the post-tsunami reconstruction projects, a children’s home and playground have been recently inaugurated in the village of Kosgoda on the west coast of Sri Lanka. Thanks to the commitment of the Order of Malta’s International Relief Corps, a kindergarten, a university, a health centre, another children’s home, a refectory and fifty [...]

Thanks to new funds, the Order of Malta’s Emergency Corps can continue its bird flue prevention campaign in the Mae La Oon and Mae Luang Ra refugee camps. The project, running up to September 2009, aims to reduce the risk of bird flu infection in the two refugee camps on the Thailand-Myanmar border in which [...]

Malteser International delivered relief items to 580 families affected by the powerful earthquake in northern Baluchistan on 28 October. To face the winter, groundsheets, wool blankets, clothing, domestic and hygiene kits were distributed as well as water tanks and purification tablets. This earthquake was the worst to affect Pakistan since the one in October 2005 [...]

At Hoa Quy, 100 km south of Ho Chi Minh city, 99 destitute women have participated in a training seminar which has taught them basic economic concepts and sales techniques. They are now ready to set up small businesses, thus helping to improve their families’ living conditions The project is based on Malteser International’s cooperation [...]

Malteser International’s work in villages in the Darfur rural areas, inaccessible during the rainy season in August and September, was resumed in October. The main actions are the vaccination of under one-year-olds, monitoring the growth of under five-year-olds and assistance to pregnant women. With the aim of improving knowledge and consequently preventing maternal and neonatal [...]