Caritas youth volunteers have been making the most of non-formal international training opportunities offered by the EU YOUTH Programme, proving that voluntariness is not only about giving but also receiving.

Apart from encouraging young people to develop their sense of initiative and to better understand the diversity of our European culture and shared heritage, these international projects provide the opportunity for youths across Europe and beyond to get to know each other in a multicultural setting and to eventually plan and create projects together.

Through the contacts that Caritas has established over the past few years, the agency’s youth volunteers have become actively engaged in EU YOUTH projects both as participants as well as organisers with the aim of introducing a European dimension to their volunteering duties with people in difficulty.

The Caritas Youth Voluntary Service (CYVS) is a programme for young people aged between 16 and 25 years. Youth volunteers are offered the opportunity to work in various social settings while benefiting from extensive opportunities for training and personal development on both a national and international level.

The CYVS was one of the first five finalists in “Premju Gharfien Zghazagh fis-Socjeta 2005”