Aġenzija Sapport facilitates voluntary work experiences with persons with disability. Volunteers can join the Agency’s service – Sharing Lives – to offer some of their time to create activities and support persons with disability within the community.
Sharing Lives’ volunteers come from all walks of life – students, pensioners, members of other voluntary organisations and individuals offering some of their time.
We are looking for creative and passionate volunteers who would like to turn their hobbies or interests into meaningful activities for others. Whether you enjoy cooking, crafts, music, sports, or something completely unique, you can help create and lead a new programme where members and fellow volunteers come together to learn, connect, and have fun.
With the support of our professionals, you will guide a small group and share your passion in a welcoming and inclusive environment. Nothing is impossible – in the past we have had activities ranging from cooking, a variety of creative crafts, to rock climbing, and we are always excited to explore new ideas!
To gain experience of volunteering
To gain a vast array of skills including creative skills, organisational skills, public speaking, project writing and implementation, etc
To be given the opportunity to suggest and implement own creative ideas for activities
To experience first-hand the satisfaction from contributing to the inclusion of persons with disabilities
To meet a community of both local and foreign volunteers
To share experiences and different cultures with other volunteers/employees
Volunteers will be given continuous support and be provided with training and supervision, thus also ensuring that the service provided is of high standard, and safeguarding both the persons with disabilities and the volunteers.
Volunteers that accumulate more than 30 hours of service at the end of their experience will be presented with a certificate from the Agency. There are also other incentives in place to support the volunteers in their work with the service users.
The service is also supported and registered with Degree Plus at the University of Malta.
One can participate and help organise activities involving the persons with the disability in a group context.
Activities may be one-off events or a programme with a series of sessions.
One can act as a social contact where the volunteers are matched with a person with disability who he/she can befriend.
If you have any questions, feel free to contact our team at sharinglives.sapport@gov.mt.
You can submit your application electronically, or download the application form and submit it via email, by hand, or by post at address below.
Some of the activities organised by Sharing Lives and its volunteers since its inception in 2017 include:
Rugby sessions
BBQs
Fishing
Trekking
Bowling
Pool parties
Rock climbing
Live-ins
Music sessions
Art sessions
Digital literacy sessions
Photography sessions
Attending concerts and national events such as Rockestra, Isle of MTV and Military Tattoo
Travelling
Performing arts
Trips abroad and EU funded youth exchanges
Social skills programme
Leadership programme
Cooking workshops
Persons with disability who are members of Sharing Lives are also given the opportunity to give back, by being volunteers themselves. Such activities allow service users to contribute to society and in turn making them active participants of society.
Through the Sharing Lives service, Aġenzija Sapport has been awarded a Quality Mark by The European Solidarity Corps, a European Union initiative that enables young people to show solidarity with communities in their respective country as well as abroad.
Through this award, more foreign volunteers will have the opportunity to join Sharing Lives as volunteers.
Click this link for more information on Sharing Lives European Solidarity Corps volunteers
Collaborators of Sharing Lives include NGOs, private companies and other institutions in the community. These are entities willing to share their resources and availability to collaborate with Sharing Lives in joint initiatives targeting persons with disability that make use of the Sharing Lives service.
The initiative could be a one-time event or a programme planned over a number of sessions.
Entities interested in collaborating with Sharing Lives can request a meeting with a member of the team to discuss their proposed idea or to create a plan together on how their entity could contribute to Sharing Lives.
Sharing Lives
Address: Aġenzija Sapport, Alert Buildings, Cannon Road,
Qormi QRM 9030
For more information on this service, one may send an email on sharinglives.sapport@gov.mt or call on (+356) 2256 8000 (Malta) or (+356) 2156 9909 (Gozo)
