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SPECIAL TASK FORCE ON DEVELOPING INVESTMENT PROJECT
PIPELINE IN THE EU- MALTA PROJECT LIST
Project No 5
Social Infrastructure – Built environment and urban services: Social
housing
Social housing and community centres for Adult Persons with Disability
(PWD)
Project details:
The 2012 National Census identified 4,500 persons with intellectual
challenges and 22,000 disabled persons that require some sort of full or
part-time residential care. Often adult PWD live with their parents until
their family can take care of them. When parents pass away PWD lose
their life support and often have to be accommodated in public
residential old peoples’ homes which are unsuitable and unequipped to
attend to their care needs.
It is government policy to empower PWD who reach adulthood to live
independently in safe, secure and comfortable accommodation with
support staff to help as necessary, and as close as possible to the rest of
society.
Apart from promoting human rights for the disadvantaged it will save
the public purse more expensive institutional care as residential services
could be run jointly with private/NGO/Volunteer services. Such would
reduce operational costs and deliver quality services at lower costs.
The Project includes the following elements:
1. One Disability Inclusion Centre to be located at the heart of a
residential community catering for 100 residential PWD , 15 PWD
with emergency respite and 85 PWD who attend the day centre.
Budget estimate EUR 12 million.
2. 25 small Community Homes catering for 25 residents each spread all
over the country to keep PWD as close as possible to their
communities. Budget estimates EUR 20 million
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PIPELINE IN THE EU- MALTA PROJECT LIST
Project No 5
Social Infrastructure – Built environment and urban services: Social
housing
Social housing and community centres for Adult Persons with Disability
(PWD)
Project details:
The 2012 National Census identified 4,500 persons with intellectual
challenges and 22,000 disabled persons that require some sort of full or
part-time residential care. Often adult PWD live with their parents until
their family can take care of them. When parents pass away PWD lose
their life support and often have to be accommodated in public
residential old peoples’ homes which are unsuitable and unequipped to
attend to their care needs.
It is government policy to empower PWD who reach adulthood to live
independently in safe, secure and comfortable accommodation with
support staff to help as necessary, and as close as possible to the rest of
society.
Apart from promoting human rights for the disadvantaged it will save
the public purse more expensive institutional care as residential services
could be run jointly with private/NGO/Volunteer services. Such would
reduce operational costs and deliver quality services at lower costs.
The Project includes the following elements:
1. One Disability Inclusion Centre to be located at the heart of a
residential community catering for 100 residential PWD , 15 PWD
with emergency respite and 85 PWD who attend the day centre.
Budget estimate EUR 12 million.
2. 25 small Community Homes catering for 25 residents each spread all
over the country to keep PWD as close as possible to their
communities. Budget estimates EUR 20 million
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