Culture and solidarity at Valletta Week

The Equal Partners Foundation is currently organising the sixth edition of 'Valletta Week' whereby students participate in numerous cultural and fund-raising events in the capital in support of people with a disability and learning difficulties.

During the week, around 1,600 students between the ages of nine and 14 will visit the Malta Experience and Knights Hospitallers audiovisual attractions, the Seige Bell Monument, the Lower Barrakka gardens, and the Police Academy at Fort St Elmo. The students are being accompanied by teachers, facilitators, volunteers and first-aiders. The activities end on Thursday.

The week is part of the foundation's 'Partners in Culture' initiative, aimed at making students more aware of Valletta's cultural heritage and highlighting the work of the foundation, a parent-run, non-profit organisation that provides individual support to approximately 200 children and adults with disabilities or learning difficulties and their families.

The event is supported by Bank of Valletta. At the presentation of the bank's sponsorship to the foundation's president Colin Galea, Edward Muscat Azzopardi, the bank's head of Marketing, remarked that the bank had always been at the forefront in providing support to the community.

"Non-governmental organisations often reach out on an individual level that permeates every aspect of the community.

"We wholeheartedly endorse the sterling efforts of Equal Partners and their collaboration with the Valletta council, since not only does it educate future generations on the cultural and historic heritage of Valletta, but it also emphasises the value of solidarity," said Mr Muscat Azzopardi.