Employers urged to recruit Eritreans

Fr Dionysius Mintoff, director of the Peace Lab., has appealed to employers to offer decent work opportunities to Eritreans granted humanitarian status and presently enjoying the hospitality of the Hal Far shelter.

The 30 Eritreans, including 10 women, are living at the residential quarters offered to them by Fr Mintoff. They are housed at St Anne Hall, St Damiano Hall and St Michael Hall.

Fr Mintoff said that a number of those living at the Peace Lab's quarters do odd jobs to earn money but unfortunately their treatment could be much better and humane. Money earned would give them the dignity of being able to support themselves and ease some of the financial pressure on the Peace Lab., Fr Mintoff said.

At times the Eritreans are offered jobs which no one would want to do and, to add insult to injury, they are paid a few liri for long hours of tiring work.

Women at the Peace Lab. shelter have knitted a number of shawls and gloves to be eventually used by elderly persons in homes.

The Peace Lab. will be inaugurating a sundial on a wall near the chapel on January 1, World Day of Peace. It took Emidio Mifsud of Zejtun about a year to make the instrument.