Statutorily, the FWA is a Registered Voluntary Organization (VO_1747 – 23) which was set up in August 2019 to: ‘tend to the social needs of the Qawra community’. The VO was set up you take over the services that used you be offered by the Qawra Church Djakonija. In fact, statutorily, the FWA is managed by a Board of Administration, the CEO of the FWA being the Qawra Church parish Priest.
Meeting of the Board of Management with His Excellency the President of Malta Dr George Vella, February 2024.
- When in the year 2020, the COVID Pandemic broke out, the FWA commenced to receive frozen meals through the Alfred Mizzi Foundation and these were distributed to service users in dire need due to illness and a drop in employment opportunities.
- With the rise in food prices, more and more service users were being referred either from the Government Entity, the Foundation of ( FSWS), as well as Parish Priests from various localities, and Caritas
- With the FWA also providing dry foods to all service users so as to encourage them to prepare their own meals, in 2021 the FWA applied for Funds from the OCVO so as to have a Store where it could keep such provisions it either buys from its funds or it received from generous donators. This request was awarded and the Store is today a very useful part of the FWA operations.
- Alfred Mizzi Foundation continued to supply the FWA with frozen meals even when the peak of the COVID pandemic was past, and this proved to be a Godsend when the Qawra area became home to Ukrainian refugees when war broke out in their Country in February 2022.
- In 2022, the FWA was again awarded funds by the OCVO that allowed it to procure kitchen hardware such as an oven, refrigerator and soup kettle. In this period, the Alfred Mizzi Foundation made arrangements with the Archdiocese of Malta to supply kitchen equipment instead of frozen foods. Frozen food thus commenced to be received from the so called ‘Kcina ta’ Marta’.
- The new FWA kitchen hardware allowed the FWA to commence providing warm meals (below) on a monthly basis to the lonely, homeless and elderly in the area, on its premises on the Qawra Church.
- Also in 2022 the FWA took on another initiative and expanded the services it provided to the Ukrainian Community and with the assistance of the Roland Macdonald Foundation/Learning Centre at Qawra, English Language Courses at different levels commenced to be taught to the refugees .This has assisted refugees to integrate into our society and also find employment. Such lessons are ongoing, even expanding to Conversation Classes and Maltese language lessons.
- Activities also commenced to be organized for Ukraine children. This is also on-going. All ‘clients’ sign a Consent Form
Ukraine mothers were not forgotten and were also provided with Activity Lessons.
The FWA is fully dependent on the generosity of parishioners and sponsors of its cause.
An Annual Report of our activities is submitted each year to the OCVO.
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