Parcallario, the “Park in the air”! This is where our adventurous souls took us on our last trip in April. One day to Sicily, to the heart of the Wood of Santa Maria, near Syracuse, where you can find a wonderful Adventure Park in the middle of the woods. Here you can climb and walk among centuries-old oaks and holm oaks, large pines and chestnut trees. Our girls embraced the challenge head on...

A team of employees from Green Jade Games took the initiative to reach out to us to see if they could help with any hands-on work needed at the Homes. We took the opportunity to re-paint some doors, a bedroom, and some of the benches in the garden. For a whole day, the Home was packed with hard working men and women, who gave all their energy to completing the tasks they set out to do. T...

The location was stupendous, and the views were breathtaking. The participants had the opportunity to try out art therapy exercises hands-on. These activities included poem writing, mandala drawing, painting and using clay amongst others. Our Youth Support worker Kim enjoyed face painting the most because she could interpret the way she saw the person she was face painting on and expressing what ...

Three months into the closure of schools and a lock down for residents at the Homes, we are now ready to slowly start releasing certain restrictions, taking great care to continue safeguarding the safety of the residents and staff. As challenging as this period was, it served to be a time of reflection and creativity. Residents created artistic projects, spent time baking and cooking, as wel...

Building Bridges, an Erasmus+ funded training course, saw the coming together of 40 keen youth workers, social workers, care workers and counsellors, all ready to learn and share knowledge, with the ultimate aim of improving the quality of the relationships with the young people they work with. For another year, British psychologists Mr Colin Newton and Mr Derek Wilson from Inclusive Solution...

Focus Your Vision! was a 12-day youth exchange held in Haarlem, Netherlands, in which seven young people from the Conservatorio Vincenzo Bugeja Homes participated in.  The main themes explored during the youth exchange were upcycling and creativity. The 32 young people who came together from Malta, Netherlands, Italy and Latvia actively participated in discussing and exploring important issues,...

Two care workers from the Conservatorio Vincenzo Bugeja took part in a training course held in the Netherlands.  This was the first project of the sort which was opened to care workers, and was indeed a great success.  The activities held during the course were replicated with the residents from the Homes and were indeed a great success. This presentation in the below link was prepared by, Fran...

FABRIC: Fresh Approaches to Behaviour and Relationships when working with young people with Challenging Behaviour. Training Course: 21 – 27 January 2018, Malta The end of January saw 20 enthusiastic people from the UK, Latvia and Romania meet another 20 Maltese participants in Rabat, Malta for a training course entitled FABRIC.  This Erasmus+ project sought to provide participants with the tools...

Live Right, Be Bright was an Erasmus+ funded youth exchange held in July 2017 for over 30 young people from four European Countries – Malta, Sardinia, Denmark and The Netherlands. The exchange was organised by Empowering Youth in Care, a Maltese organisation that works with adolescent females who live in residential care, in collaboration with Malik Organisation based in Sardinia.  All the youn...

Empowering Youth in Care, the youth organisation working from within Conservatorio Vincenzo Bugeja, was awarded with funds from Erasmus+ to coordinate a youth exchange project to be held in Sardinia. In July 2017, eight residents from the Homes will be joining 35 other young people from Sardinia, Denmark and the Netherlands for a Youth Exchange in the town of Abbasanta. The main themes of th...