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06/10/2008
In Cambodia, Malteser International is engaged in reducing the high rate of infant mortality by improving childbirth services, especially in rural areas. The Order of Malta’s Relief Corps cooperates, in various villages, with TBAs, Traditional Birth Attendants, and MSGs, Mother Support Groups, local organizations that help women before and after birth. Malteser International also organises […]
30/09/2008
In the coastal villages of southern India devastated by the tsunami of 2004 Malteser International has enabled 427 rural families to return to work on the rehabilitated land. Over 300 reservoirs and five wells have been reconstructed in villages. Through microcredit, 500 families have been able to resume their former activities. Small farmers have been […]
27/09/2008
The heaviest monsoon rains in years have flooded the federal state of Uttar Pradesh in northern India, with more than 500,000 m³ of water discharged from the dams in neighbouring Nepal. Malteser International, the Order of Malta worldwide relief service, is there. All the streets here are flooded; the people are panicking, trying to escape […]
25/09/2008
Over and above its importance for the Church and its mission, the Holy Father’s visit to France from 12 to 15 September will remain an example of the Order of Malta’s capacity for the mobilization of its volunteers, medical staff and all those who ensured its success. To assist the 260,000 people in […]
20/09/2008
The doctors of the Polish Association’s humanitarian mission, present in Georgia since August 14th, are continuing their work in refugee camps in the cities of Tbilisi and Gori. In this latter city a health unit, the only one for some 1700 refugees, has been operational since the outset. Returning from a humanitarian mission in Georgia […]
18/09/2008
In the council chamber of the Town Hall, the Prince and Grand Master Fra’ Matthew Festing received the keys of the city of Rapallo (province of Genoa) from the hands of the mayor Mentore Campodonico and a copy, handwritten on parchment, of the resolution conferring the honorary citizenship on him. Over a hundred political, civil, […]
09/09/2008
On 8 September the Church celebrates the birth of the Blessed Virgin Mary and on this date the Order of Malta held its traditional pilgrimage to Assisi, led by Grand Master Fra’ Matthew Festing. Mass was celebrated in the Patriarchal Basilica of St. Mary of the Angels by Cardinal Pio Laghi and the Order’s chaplains. […]
06/09/2008
A strong, renewed commitment to continue cooperation for the health and wellbeing of the Romanian people. This formal statement concluded the summit between Grand Master Fra’ Matthew Festing and the President of Romania Traian Basescu. The meeting was held in the Order of Malta’s Magistral Villa during the Romanian Head of State’s three-day visit to […]
04/09/2008
The Order’s Embassy and Polish Association provide medicines, food and equipment Plans for the humanitarian mission of Order of Malta’s embassy to Tbilisi are being finalized. By the end of this week Prof. Marcello Celestini, Minister Counsellor of our diplomatic mission in Georgia, will have provided for the financing of medicines, food and other essential […]
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