CORE Platform Leaflet

Some of the local and European projects CORE Platform is engaged in include:
Volunteer Sliema
Volunteer Sliema is a Partnership between SOS Malta and the Core Platform and is supported
by Sliema Local Council and Capua Hospital. This multi-stakeholder local partnership will
develop an innovative community based response to the needs of vulnerable elderly people to
ensure a reduction of their social exclusion, whilst contributing to a reawakening of the spirit
of self giving and active citizenship within the community through the development of a local
volunteer scheme. This project will be a flagship project to celebrate 25 years of SOS Malta.
This project will seek to ensure vulnerable elderly and people with a physical disability feel
more mobile and able to access health care and essential services, as well as engage in leisure
and community activities. Additionally, the project will seek to provide emotional support to
these groups of people through the creation of a Community Volunteers Network.
This pilot project will build upon both the existing VolServ project and Tal-Kultura – the
volunteer programme for Valletta 2018, which currently together have approximately 500
volunteers. The scheme will also utilise the existing the SOS Malta car and the wealth of
volunteer management experience SOS Malta holds and will contribute to the SOS Malta
core pillar of work of social inclusion and solidarity with vulnerable groups. The proposed
pilot project would take place in Sliema. This area is one of the main shopping hubs with a
wide catchment area.
The project will include 3 key elements:
1) The development of a local volunteer network of 20-30 volunteers to ensure a pool of
support for the elderly;
2) The development of a community transport scheme to promote the mobility of the elderly
and those with a disability;
3) The establishment of a local stakeholder network who support the implementation of the
scheme.