1. www.spysmalta.org Towards a holistic formation for young people

2. www.spysmalta.org SPYS: Who are we? SPYS: Salesian Pastoral Youth Service A team of 22 experienced religious and volunteer, lay youth leaders From local area… to a national dimension… to international involvement

3. www.spysmalta.org The aims Two-fold aim: Person and community building Holistic formation for young people Leading young people towards authentic Christian life values in the spirit of Don John Bosco

4. www.spysmalta.org Organogram: the SPYS structure

5. www.spysmalta.org Activities SPYSteam Seminars Residential weekend seminars Adult training seminars Animation SPYS & Friends SPYS.int: International activities

6. www.spysmalta.org Activities: SPYSteam Annual formation weekend Fortnightly meetings Task group meetings Core team SPYS & Friends SPYS.int Seminar teams One-off activity tasks Training courses SPYS induction Human development course Don Bosco Youth-Net (DBYN) biannual meetings Social activities

7. www.spysmalta.org Activities: Residential weekend seminars Recognized by the University of Malta as either optional or extra-curricular credits Seminars include: Teamwork Take A Lead Lead Again Touching Lives Through Sports Ħajti Skop u Ħolm A Time to Relate

8. www.spysmalta.org Activities: Adult-training seminars Usually given out by a foreign guest speaker Targeted towards youth-leaders, social workers, psychologists, university students… but not just Past seminars included Dreams & Spirituality Intimacy and Autonomy Story & the Art of Change The Enneagram Grieving: Coping with Loss Stress Management …and more

9. www.spysmalta.org Activities: Animation Sessions for youth groups and youth centres Lenten reflections Il-Holqa fil-Katina Jien Quddiem Alla u Quddiem il-Bniedem Reaching Beyond Yourself (Millennium Chapel) Holy week activities

10. www.spysmalta.org Activities: SPYS & Friends Follow-up encounters Social activities Discussions Outdoor activities Good source of contact with youths on a monthly basis Mailing list – spysmalta@googlegroups.com

11. www.spysmalta.org Activities: SPYS.int DBYN: A network of 12 partner organizations Youth exchanges and encounters Training courses Study visits Website: www.donboscoyouth.net Volunteering Malta: Savio College Summer Live-ins Europe: Summer camps in Belgium and the Netherlands European Voluntary Service (EVS) India: child labour rehabilitation projects Training of volunteers Website: www.spysmalta.org/spysint/

12. www.spysmalta.org Publications & PR Quest: A fortnightly article on the Times of Malta tackling youth issues Press releases New website: www.spysmalta.org YouTube.com: video presentations of seminars and activities Wikipedia.org: Article about SPYS

13. www.spysmalta.org Plans and challenges More involvement of volunteers in task groups SPYS.int SPYS & Friends More collaboration with local organizations and NGOs SYM KDŻ KNŻ Kare4Kenya Establishing new projects with DBYN partners Looking for more projects to host foreign volunteers Looking for funds to sustain running costs of the new premises and to develop new projects Also through its new premises, SPYS aims to become a centre of youth animation

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