Cat cafés to be set up in Rabat and Mdina

Young helping hands... Simon Micallef (left) with Rabat mayor Alexander Craus.

The ShareMalta Foundation has sealed a partnership with the Rabat and Mdina mayors to secure help towards setting up cat cafés for stray felines in the two localities.

The foundation is managing the Young Citizens'Pilot Research Project, geared to assist in providing some of the badly-needed resources for stray cats and their feeders. The resources will be dedicated to cat cafés set in attractive gardens, recovery centres and food/care.

Due to the neutering programmes underway, the colonies will considerably decrease in numbers, making this project easier to manage in time.

Simon Micallef, 16, a student of St Aloysius College, is the first student to use the curriculum to help animals. With the help of other young citizens, the student is coordinating a survey in Rabat to establish the residents' views on stray cats.

Pupils from the Mtarfa Boys' School, who created a model cat café for the project, will be doing voluntary work to help strays.

The plan is that the cats of Rabat and Mdina will become a tourist attraction, as is the case in Rome, with the community taking ownership and pride in the project.

The foundation needs more volunteers to dedicate a few hours a month to assist with this worthwhile project. It is looking for mature people who have business or teaching experience and can coordinate on a committee, plus regular feeders/drivers and people who are computer literate to assist with the website.

The foundation is also looking for a home for some 25 kittens.

For more information contact ShareMalta 9921 9815 or send an e-mail to lovelifeforce@yahoo.co.uk.

Comments

CARMEL SERRACINO-INGLOTT (3 days ago)

I as the President of the National Cat Society would like to thank the Local Councils of Rabat and Mdina for their help that they intend to offer and are offering to ShareMalta Foundation for the setting up of Cat Cafes at those localities. This is the exact opposite some Local councils do in some other areas in Malta.
I have reported cases to Luqa Police stations of poisoning of cats in that village some months ago. Result poisoning of cats is going on . Does the lady local councilor know about this vile act going on in her village?
Cats at Romeo Romano garden have also been poisoned. Shame on people who act in this manner because they do not like cats. Worst than hunting.