Make a WISH to the Sovereign Order of Malta Rule Book 2016

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Rule Book 2016

Make a WISH to the Sovereign Order of Malta

Initiative for children and adults from Serbia with physical and mental disabilities for the Year 2016

Physically and mentally disabled children and adults are among the human beings that suffer the most at any time in any society. Among the most fragile they are the most vulnerable: very often completely abandoned, poorly assisted and taken care of, also marginalized by the prevalence of selfishness and indifference, and, unfortunately, of violence.

In Serbia about 190.000 households have family members that have a certain level of mental disability. More than 2.500 of them are placed in special institutions scattered throughout the country and the majority of them are abandoned children. 

Nearly all institutions for the housing and care of disabled children and adults are public except for one that is run by Nuns of the Serbian Orthodox Church. The Center was established in 1946. Since 2003, the Center of St. Petka is under the jurisdiction of the Centre for Social Work in Paraffin (central Serbia), and represents today a unique facility of cooperation among State institutions and the Serbian Orthodox Church.
Serbia’s EU accession process has started recently however the social-welfare reform is still far away.
The Order of Malta has a millennial history of dedication and service to the poorest of the poor, the weakest of the weak.

In Serbia, since the beginning of the Order’s presence, various humanitarian and social initiatives have been undertaken together with educational and training programs.

During 2015, the project undertaken by the Embassy in Serbia and baptized “Make a WISH to the Sovereign Order of Malta” – financed by funds collected during a successful charity-dinner held in the Principality of Monaco – has helped 1.500 children from the hardest hit areas by the floods of 2014.
That very positive result has encouraged us to repeat the initiative in 2016 with a new “Make a WISH to the Sovereign Order of Malta” aimed precisely at children and adults with physical and mental disabilities.
With this project the Order of Malta’s Embassy in Serbia intends to intensify its solidarity presence in the Serbian society, with full respect of its traditions, identity and culture of its noble people in a spirit of ecumenical brotherhood between the Orthodox and Catholic Christians.
The beneficiaries of the project will be mentally and physically disabled children and adults living in two institutions: The Institute for children and youth “Sremcica” (close to Belgrade) – praiseworthy public institution accommodating up to 300 people of different ages – and the home for mentally disabled people of the Monastery of the Serbian Orthodox Church St Petka, village Izvor close to Paracin accommodating up to 92 females of different ages. 
Both institutions will collect and perform a firstscreening and selection of the WISHES of its guests. It will be possible to have a single WISH by a single person as well as group WISHES.
The Project will be implemented in two separate actions: one from March to April for collecting the letters of the requested WISHES; the other one from March to September to search for donors, individual and institutional, from Serbia and other countries among which are France, Italy, the Principality of Monaco, Taiwan, Hungary.
The collected WISHES will be delivered throughout the year 2016, from March to December, according to the urgency and to the availability of the donors.
Even for this year our Media-Partners will be the local newspaper POLITIKA and the television network PINK TV.

 

 Palace Serbia, Belgrade, Ambassador Alberto di Luca inspects the Honor Guard of the Serbian Armed Forces in occasion of the delivery of the Credential Letters to the President of the Republic.

 Belgrade, June 11th 2012. Inauguration of new President of the Republic of Serbia, H.E. Tomislav Nikolic. Ambassador Alberto di Luca has given to President Nikolic the greetings and best wishes of the Grand Master of the Order, Fra Matthew Festing.

 Belgrade, October 18th 2010, Ceremony of the delivery of the Credential Letters by Ambassador Alberto di Luca to the President of the Republic Boris Tadic.

The Heads of the Royal House of Serbia, HRH Crown Prince Alexander II and Crown Princess Katherine, upon arrival at Twiga welcomed by, from left, the first Secretary of The Embassy Mr. Giorgio Giuliano, by Ambassador Alberto di Luca, on the right, and his spouse Mrs. Emanuela on the right in the picture.

Came especially from Serbia to attend the charity-dinner organized in favor of the project “Make a WISH” of the Embassy of the Sovereign Order of Malta in Belgrade, H.E. the Archbishop of Belgrade, Msgr. Stanislav Hocevar.

For the National Day of the Sovereign Order of Malta, the Opera Tosca at the National Theatre; Belgrade, June 24th.

The delegation of the Serbian parliamentarians at the PAM with Ambassador Alberto di Luca.

Aleksinac and Sabac – Winter 2014/2015 This 2015, the Embassy of the Sovereign Order of Malta in Serbia will again be alongside those in need of “a hot meal on a cold winter’s day”. Together with the logistical collaboration of Caritas Serbia, every weekend during Serbia’s cold winter, at Aleksinac and Sabac, the initiative that satisfied more than 3,000 people last winter of 2014, will be repeated.

In the photo, from left S.E. Orthodox Metropolitan Irinej Dobrijevic, Hon. Vladimir Marinkovic, S.A.R. Prince Aleksandar II Karadjordjevic, Amb. Alberto di Luca, Professor Oliver Antic, the Nuncio S.E. Rev.ma Mons. Orlando Antonini, Dr. Federico Bolondi and the Catholic Archbishop in Belgrade S.E. Rev.ma Msgr. Stanislav Hocevar.

During the ceremony, H.H. Patriarch Irinej awarded with the high honor of “Holy Emperor Constantine” Ambassador di Luca for the activities on the occasion of the 1700th anniversary of the Edict of Milan.

 The new premises of the Embassy of the Order of Malta were inaugurated and blessed by Cardinal Angelo Scola, Archbishop of Milan, and special envoy of Pope Francis to celebrate the 1700th Edict of Constantine. The Ambassador Alberto di Luca has welcomed the Cardinal accompanied by the Archbishop of Belgrade Mons. Hocevar.

1113/2013: inauguration in the seat of the Serbian Parliament of the photographic exhibition on the 900 years of the papal bull which established the Sovereignty of the Order.

Inauguration of the Nurdor House

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