YMCA Malta

07/09/2026

After 50 years of service, YMCA Malta is looking firmly towards the future. 💙

Together with ENAE Escuela de Negocios y Administración de Empresas and YMCA Europe, we have been on a long but successful digitalisation journey. By embracing technology, we can give our teams more time to focus on what matters most: supporting individuals, families and children experiencing homelessness. Honouring 50 years of human connection while building a smarter, more integrated YMCA for the years ahead.

03/09/2026

Technology with purpose. 💙

Together with ENAE Escuela de Negocios y Administración de Empresas & YMCA Europe we are now presenting and testing the technology that the students have developed to help us reduce paperwork, improve coordination and give our teams more time to focus on what truly matters: supporting people.

This is an important step towards bringing our ecosystem of care closer together, connecting our services and creating smoother pathways of support for individuals, families and children experiencing homelessness.

Innovation is most powerful when it strengthens human connection. A heartfelt thank you to the students for placing their skills, creativity and knowledge at the service of our mission.

01/09/2026

This morning, a group of volunteers and interns joined YMCA to support our services and contribute their time, skills and energy to our mission 💙

Following an introductory session, they had the opportunity to learn more about YMCA Malta’s work, values and ecosystem of care. We look forward to supporting them throughout this experience as, together, we continue promoting the vision of a more just society.

If you are ready to gain hands-on experience, build new skills, connect with like-minded people and create real social impact and help strengthen our ecosystem of care for homeless individuals, families and children, reach out to us!

31/08/2026

🌍 Upcoming International Youth Exchange

We are pleased to announce an upcoming youth exchange in Sanary-sur-Mer, France, bringing together young people aged 18 to 30 from Malta, France and Germany.

Under the theme “Resilience: Looking After Yourself and the World”, participants will explore mental wellbeing, emotional resilience and practical ways of managing stress, while connecting these themes with wider issues such as peace, the environment, digital wellbeing and access to employment.

Mental health matters. Creating safe spaces where young people can speak openly, build supportive relationships and develop the tools to face life’s challenges is an important investment in their present and their future.

We are now opening this opportunity to prospective participants from Malta who may be interested in joining this meaningful international experience.

Interested? Send us a private message or contact YMCA Malta to register your interest and receive further information once arrangements are confirmed.

Ca y est, c'est parti !
Réunion de travail avec nos partenaires YMCA Malta et CVJM München e. V. pour préparer le premier volet de notre séjour tri national France/Allemagne/Malte.

Dates : du 26 au 31 octobre 2026
Lieu : YMCA Centre Azur

24 jeunes se retrouveront pour échanger, débattre, s'entraider, et apprendre de nouveaux outils.

L'idée : donner aux jeunes des clés concrètes pour gérer le stress et l'anxiété lié aux études, à l'orientation professionnelle et à la vie numérique et l'impact de l'intelligence artificielle sur leur trajectoire de vie.
Une réalité qui touche une majorité d'entre eux aujourd'hui : 68 % des étudiants redoutent leur avenir professionnel.

Un séjour soutenu par l' DFJW et avec le partenariat YMCA Europe et HP.

Suivez-vous pour en savoir plus, les modalités seront annoncées bientôt.

31/08/2026

📊 BE COUNTED. BE REPRESENTED.

Foreign residents are an important part of Malta’s communities, and your experiences should be reflected in the country’s official statistics.

The National Statistics Office’s new campaign explains:

🔹 Why participating in official surveys matters
🔹 How your participation helps represent your community
🔹 How your personal information is kept confidential, protected by law and used solely for statistical purposes

Information is available in 19 languages, making the campaign accessible to more communities across Malta.

🌍 Select your preferred language and learn more:
https://nso.gov.mt/be-counted-be-represented/

At YMCA Malta, we believe that everyone living in our communities deserves to be seen, heard and represented.

Malta

30/08/2026

| 50 Moments That Made Us |

Across 50 years of YMCA Malta, certain people have left a legacy that continues to shape who we are and how we serve.

Nikolai “Niki” Cassar, Simon Soler, Albert Degiorgio and Mary J. Jones each responded to the needs of their time with courage, compassion and action. Together with the enduring support of Y’s Friends Malta, their contributions helped create shelters, strengthen communities, empower women and young people, and build partnerships that continue today.

Their names live not only in our memories, but in the homes, services and opportunities that support people every day.

As YMCA Malta marks its 50th anniversary, we honour the Heroes who helped build more than an organisation. They helped build a movement of service.

Discover their stories:
👉 https://ymcamalta.org/ymca-heroes/

28/08/2026

Sebastian and Maypole are proud to have donated €1,000 to Zach Vella from .mt , in support of the 's mission to build new homes for those in need.

We believe that everyone deserves a safe place to call home, and we are honoured to contribute to this meaningful initiative that will make a lasting difference in the lives of individuals and families.

Together, we can help build not just houses, but hope and brighter futures. 💙🏡

28/08/2026

We have joined seventeen other organisations in writing to Foreign Minister Chris Fearne, calling on Malta to actively support a European Union ban on trade with illegal Israeli settlements, and to pass its own national law prohibiting such trade.

🚨 The letter follows Malta's absence, at the EU Foreign Affairs Council on 13 July, from a group of eleven member states calling on the European Commission to propose settlement trade restrictions. The initiative fell three states short of the number needed to force the Commission to act.

"Malta has recognised Palestine and called the settlements illegal," said PEN Malta President Kurt Borg. "What it has not done is act on that when it counted. The government says it prefers a route everyone knows leads nowhere. That is a choice, and Malta made it while a genocide is under way. We are asking the minister to make a different one."

⚠️ The government's stated position is that such measures should go through the EU's foreign policy framework, which requires the agreement of all 27 member states. The signatories say this guarantees nothing will happen, because countries such as Germany will never agree, and that choosing the one route certain to fail while declining to support the one that can work "is obstruction by procedure."

The letter argues Malta's position contradicts its own record. Malta recognised the State of Palestine and endorsed the 2024 International Court of Justice opinion, which found that states must not assist in maintaining the occupation, including through trade. "Consistency is what is at stake," the letter says. "Either the occupation is unlawful and Malta acts accordingly, or it was never a principle at all."

📣 The signatories also call on Malta to pass its own law banning settlement trade, and note that it would not be acting alone in doing so. Spain, Ireland and the Netherlands have already adopted such laws, with Belgium and Norway following and bills tabled in Italy and France. The United Kingdom is working on a ban covering goods and services.

FREE PALESTINE 🍉

aditus | Association for Justice, Equality and Peace | Blue Door Education | The Daphne Caruana Galizia Foundation | Faculty of Education - University of Malta | Friends of the Earth Malta | Ġustizzja għall-Palestina | Humanists Malta | Il-Kollettiv | Inizjamed | Maltese Association of Social Workers | Migrants Commission of the Archdiocese of Malta | Moviment Graffitti | PEN Malta | Repubblika | SOS Malta | SpeakUP Malta | YMCA Malta

28/08/2026

𝗢𝘂𝗿 𝗩𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝟮𝟬𝟯𝟬

We proudly launched our Vision 2030: DAR Pathways 2030, setting out the organisation we are becoming and the impact we are committed to creating.

By 2030, YMCA Malta will strengthen clear and dignified pathways for people facing homelessness, from prevention and crisis response to stabilisation, move-on and aftercare.

Our vision is to build an integrated ecosystem of care: coordinated, person-centred and accountable, where support is not fragmented, delayed or dependent on luck. At the heart of this vision is our promise:

𝗗𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗶𝘁𝘆: treating every person as a human being with rights, strengths and a future.

𝗔𝗰𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀: helping people reach the right support early and without unnecessary barriers.

𝗥𝗲𝗳𝘂𝗴𝗲: providing safety and stability, together with a planned pathway forward.

Aligned with the Worldwide YMCA Movement’s Vision 2030, our work will contribute towards four shared priorities:

• Community Wellbeing
• Meaningful Work
• A Just World
• A Sustainable Planet

Vision 2030 is a commitment to strengthen our services, workforce, partnerships and organisational resilience, while ensuring that lived experience remains part of how we shape our work.

Homelessness cannot be addressed through isolated interventions. It requires a connected pathway, shared responsibility and the belief that lasting stability is possible.

𝗢𝗻𝗲 𝗼𝗿𝗴𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘀𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻. 𝗙𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗽𝗮𝘁𝗵𝘄𝗮𝘆𝘀. 𝗢𝗻𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗺𝗶𝘀𝗲: 𝗗𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗶𝘁𝘆, 𝗔𝗰𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗥𝗲𝗳𝘂𝗴𝗲.

This is our direction. This is DAR Pathways 2030.