Activity Report 2010 - Sovereign Military Order of Malta in the United ...

Order’s Projects
are underway
in 120 countries
Annual Order International
Summer Camp for disabled
youth – held in 2007 in
Switzerland, 2008 in
Austria, in Spain 2009. Over
450 participants from 20
countries join it every year.
Oakland, California: Order
health clinic set up in Christ
the Light Cathedral Centre to
treat the uninsured. The staff -
volunteers doctors, nurses and
auxiliaries - give free assistance
to anyone who comes.
Switzerland
North America
A wide range of social programmes
underpins the Order’s activities in the
United States, Canada and Mexico.
Social and community work is high
profile, with a developing project in
prison ministry and reconstruction
projects after Hurricane Katrina.
Throughout the year, ongoing activities
include home visits to the sick housebound,
transport for the elderly, shelter
houses for single mothers and women
who have suffered domestic violence,
drug programmes for young people
and community projects.
California, Oakland
Haiti
Spain
Support for the Hôpital
Sacré Coeur in rural Haiti;
volunteer medical teams
come on a regular basis.
Emergency relief measures
and reconstruction after the
2010 earthquake.
South America
Present in 26 countries in the region,
assistance after natural catastrophes,
which have left disease and destruction
in their wake is an important activity.
The Order’s emergency aid services
provide first aid, temporary shelter and
food for victims. On a regular care basis,
there are hospices for orphans, for the
poor elderly, treatment for sufferers of
leprosy, diabetes, cancer.
Also underway: programmes for street
children, for HIV positive mothers and
infants, for the homeless, and for handicapped
children in rural areas as well
as soup kitchens for the poor in
urban areas.
El Alto, Bolivia
Support for a Dialysis Centre
and construction of centre for
terminal cancer patients in
El Alto, Bolivia. Cooperation
on the Altiplano Chuno Project
(potato growing to reduce
hunger and poverty of native
communities).
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SOVEREIGN MILITARY HOSPITALLER ORDER OF ST. JOHN OF JERUSALEM OF RHODES AND OF MALTA