Week-long activities focus on poverty and social exclusion
Outdoor activites at Upper Barrakka Gardens, Buskett
A number of activities are being held as part of the European Year for Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion awareness campaign.
Focus Week, which opened yesterday and ends on Sunday, is organised by the National Implementing Body within the Ministry for Education, Employment and Family in collaboration with other ministries and government entities, with the involvement of non-governmental organisations and contributors who work closely with persons experiencing various forms of poverty and social exclusion.
The event is aimed to attract public attention towards the need to fight poverty and social exclusion.
An exhibition mounted for Focus Week is open daily throughout the Focus Week between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. till Friday and from 9 a.m. and noon on Saturday and Sunday at the ground floor of the Ministry for Education, Employment and the Family, Palazzo Ferreria, Valletta.
A series of drama episodes depicting various episodes of poverty and social exclusion will be produced in Republic Street, Valletta (opposite the law courts) today and on Saturday at 9.30 a.m. They will be presented again on Sunday at 11 a.m. and 4 p.m. at Buskett Roadhouse Gardens, Rabat.
A conference, entitled Social Security - Information and Awareness, will be held today at the Oracle Conference Centre, Dolmen Resort Hotel, Qawra. Registrations open at 8.30 a.m. and the conference starts at 9 a.m.
The National Council of Women will be holding a public dialogue - Social Security Entitlement for Women - at the Museum of Archaeology, Valletta tomorrow at 6 p.m. and the National Commission for Persons with Disability will be holding a national conference on Saturday at the Victoria Hotel, George Borg Olivier Street, Sliema, starting at 9 a.m.
A number of outdoor activities will be held on Sunday. At the Upper Barrakka Gardens in Valletta, Worldfest Day will be celebrated in collaboration with Arka Foundation and a Parent and Child Spring Fair will take place at Buskett Roadhouse Gardens.
More details can be obtained from the Foundation for Social Welfare Services on 2388 5128 or via noel.a.calleja@gov.mt.
For further information visit: European Year for Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion 2010 - http://www.2010againstpoverty.eu and www.EY2010.gov.mt.
Eurobarometer survey on attitudes to poverty and social exclusion (full report, summary report and country factsheets) - http://ec.europa.eu/public_opinion/archives/eb_special_en.htm .