Prisms Malta

National Network
Malta
Address

39,Alexander street
Hamrun Malta HMR 1524
Malta

Telephone
+356 77375525
E-Mail
prisms.malta@gmail.com
Organisation Type
Non-Governmental Organization
Year of Establishment
2008
Fields of Activity
  1. Democracy and community development
  2. Human rights
  3. International/Cultural relations
  4. Youth and education
General Information
Prisms is a group of experienced youth workers/leaders that came together with the aim of creating an NGO that caters for the requirements of young people. Prisms aims to empower young people with the skills, tools, information and values necessary for personal growth and to be an active participant within society. PRISMS provides to the necessities of young people through informal and non-formal methods of education so as to reach their needs in a holistic manner. We are made up of a core of volunteers and also 2 people that are working in our offices on full time basis. This varies by time depending on the different project funding’s that we have. We have both local and international funding’s, with the local funding’s coming for the Maltese VO and the international funding’s coming from the EU through different funds. We organize various projects including youth exchanges, training courses and seminars. We have various partners both local and international ones that take part as partners in our projects. We have also been partners with some NGOs that are ALF members like Povod Slovenia.
Mission and Objectives

Mission Statment:
PRISMS aims to empower young people, youth workers, youth leaders and all those interested in their own personal development, with the skills, tools, information and values necessary for personal growth and to be active participants within society.
The objectives of Prisms are the following:
- To Empower young people with the skills, tools, information and values necessary for personal growth and to be active participants within society.

- To  Provide to the necessities of the young people trough informal and non formal methods of education.

- To Create a synergy with other agencies, both national and international, involved in youth work.
-To  Encourage youth work through networking with other stakeholders.

- To Update and communicate with its counterparts and the young people it comes in contact with on a regular basis through a website which is to be created for this purpose and other interactive resources.
-To  Promote activities that might be relevant to youth.

Main Projects / Activities

As written in the general information we have various activities going on all year round. Our youth workers are working on a regular basis with various young people from different areas of Malta and with different backgrounds. We are making use of different local and international funds like Erasmus+ and Europe for citizens

Currently we are implementing two long term projects with the main target group being the young people. These projects are Islanders and Explore More.
Islanders: Project Islanders is a youth project funded by the Erasmus+ programme aimed to help young people gain added confidence in themselves by learning numerous skills in communication, leadership, teamwork, social entrepreneurship, marketing, IT and presentation skills so as to be able to either get back into education or the workforce.
Explore More: This training focuses more on the time when the young people come to choose their future career. We are working closely with schools, Universities and other educational institutions to create a one for all platform that the young people can make use of to get information on their future career.

We are also working to promote volunteering locally by promoting EVS that is European voluntary service.

These are few of the many activities that we are implementing as an organisation.

How can you contribute to the Network in your country?

We have been active in locally since 2008. We have been working with various people especially youth. Locally we can share our experience with the local ALF partners and work together so as to create a bigger network that can have a bigger input and thus achieve greater results with the Maltese community apart from making the ALF network more known locally.  By this the Maltese will also get to know more about the opportunities that exist in the ALF.

We will be also sharing our experience with the local network so that we have experience sharing to create a learning envoirment for all.

Why do you want to join the ALF Network?

One of our members took part in one of the training for trainers that was organised by the ALF network in Malta in March 2017. Thanks to this training opportunity he got to know more on the work of the ALF network and how it works. Apart from this our member also brought a good workbook that is full of tools that we are making use of in our various training courses. Furthermore thanks to this training course we have a new list of reliable partners that we could implement projects with. Infact one of the partners from Palestine that was in this training course, is already a partner in one of our projects. Thus we want to join this network to gain from the various experiences and different working tools that the various members in this network have. We also want to get more contact with different partners around the Mediterranean especially from the Middle East and North African coast.

Contact (1) Full Name
Ms Marie Claire Testa
Job Title
Coordinator
Head of the organisation
Marie Claire Testa
Contact (2) Full Name
Mr Clive Bonnici
Job Title (2)
Member