SPYS focuses on person building and community building by accompanying young people towards the discovery of authentic life values. We seek to develop and implement a programme of holistic Christian formation which enables the young to grow in friendship with the Lord and peace with the self and encourages them to reach out in a ministry to others.
Each year SPYS opens its doors to interested volunteers to participate in its projects. Among these there is the YES Project that takes place every year in collaboration with the Salesian Senglea community. There is also the SPYS.int project that creates various preparation sessions that will enable young
people to volunteer in Malta, Africa, Europe, India and South America.
Due to covid-19 pandemic, it was very difficult to maintain our activities especially our outreach work with young people to become volunteers. Although the core group remained active, our core activities especially those related to projects outside Malta, had to be suspended to follow the restrictions resulting from the COVID 19 pandemic.
Through the project REBOOT, SPYS helped to reignite our volunteering activities by offering the young people the opportunity to process the effects of the pandemic on the young people’s outlook on their lives. The sessions invited the young people to explore values by re-engaging in voluntary work with our organisation. Through groupwork, the therapist accompanied the young people to speak about their experience and lead them to move on and re-engage in voluntary activities.
The project was financed through the REBOOT scheme of Agenzija Żgħażagħ.