Efforts to provide disadvantaged young pregnant women with a home are to receive a shot in the arm following a memorandum of understanding penned between the President's Trust and a UK-based charity. 

The MOU will see Life Charity, which has four decades of experience in the field, help the Y-Assist programme launched last year develop programmes and technical procedures, as well as improve staff training.

Cooperation between the two entities began a year ago ahead of Y-Assist’s launch. The initiative, which is being run in partnership with the St Jean Antide Foundation, is already housing three young mothers at a recently-opened home.

As well as presiding over the MOU signing, President Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca visited a further three hospitals in London today, meeting Maltese patients and doctors there.

President Coleiro Preca called on Royal Free Hospital, Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital and St Mark’s Hospital.

The President visited three further London hospitals today. Photo: DOI/Clifton Fenech