About Us

Set up in 2007, the People for Change Foundation is structured into six specialized institutes, each of which takes on projects and initiatives within its respective area with a high degree of professionalism owed to the experience of the individuals involved within their areas of expertise.

Vision
The People for Change Foundation’s vision is of a just, fair and inclusive society all members of which may reach their full potential unhindered by factors such as age, race, color, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status.

Mission
The People for Change Foundation’s mission is to undertake research, advocacy and proactive action to promote social cohesion, respect for Human Rights and empowerment.

Current Projects
The People for Change Foundation is currently involved in a number of projects – a project on providing asylum seekers with adequate material to be able to acquire assistance and healthcare within Maltese society; in the area of racism as the national European Network Against Racism coordinating body; in the area of youth capacity building as a partner in an e-learning project funded by the Council of Europe; on Overseas Development Aid within the National Platform for Non-Governmental Development Organizations; and in human rights and citizenship education by providing resources and support on a national level on these topics. We are also working on policy recommendations in the field of children and the media, children’s participation, national youth policy, racism, health of asylum seekers, human rights education within formal education, and civil society involvement in national fora.

Our overarching philosophy is that of the

Human Rights Based Approach

A Human Rights Based Approach goes beyond a commitment to a concept - it is a strategic mainstreaming process intended to permeate all levels of a structure for it to be configured within a human rights framework, in all its internal as well as external dealings.

HRBA is a proactive process and not a retroactive one, and its impact may only be assessed should the approach be planned into the structuring or structure maintenance of an organization, and not in a hind-sight oriented fashion whereby specific actions are deemed to have been in line with a human rights based framework, this because an HRBA requires horizontal implementation and not occasional vertical intervention.

For this reason, all our projects hold within them a human rights based approach, as without this we may be safeguarding a human rights interest at the detriment of another...

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