WATCH: Making Malta Home | Inspiring Stories of Integration
Video series sheds light on refugee communities in Malta: their challenges, hopes and resilience as they build a new home in Malta
Artists put healing hands to work | World Refugee Week 2022
As Refugee Week Malta winds down to a close, we speak to some of the artists who have contributed to Malta’s inaugural edition of the international event – which this year focused on the power of ‘healing’ through art and conversation
Healing through art, together | World Refugee Week 2022
As they get underway with marshaling a packed World Refugee Week, we catch up with Deborah Falzon and Julienne Schembri of Dance Beyond Borders, who will be organizing the inaugural Maltese edition of the global event across various venues on the island from 20 June
Custodians of a diverse society | World Refugee Day 2022
We speak to Dursa and Livingstone of youth migrant NGO Spark 15 about the organisation’s most ambitious event so far – a one-day festival commemorating World Refugee Day, taking place at Argotti Gardens in Floriana on 19 June
Scholarship allows Algerian refugee student to thrive
Fleeing religious persecution in Algeria, young student Kenza Lina and her family found solace on the Maltese Islands. And with the help of the Verdala International School’s Refugee Scholarship Fund, Kenza is now able to pursue her academic study of the sciences at one of Malta’s most prestigious educational institutions
Watch: The Joys and Challenges of Integration
Keen to explore the dynamics of integration, a Malta-based refugee from Eritrea meets five Maltese people from different walks of life and asks them about the impact refugees and asylum-seekers have had on them
A rallying call for protection, 70 years on
On the occasion of the 70th Anniversary of the adoption of the 1951 Refugee Convention, we spoke to Roberta Buhagiar, CEO of the International Protection Agency, on how this landmark but ever-adaptable document remains a key reference point for the human rights based realities of the refugee situation in Malta and worldwide
How three local initiatives marked World Refugee Day in Malta
UNHCR Malta takes a look at some of the ways in which World Refugee Day 2021 was marked locally, in what is an inspiring display of solidarity and awareness-raising despite the ongoing restrictions imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Malta Refugee-led NGO Spark15 interviewed on LovinDaily
Dursa Mama of the youth association Spark15 was invited as a guest during the World Refugee Day edition on Lovin Malta’s daily show.