Welcome to the European Prison Education Association (EPEA) Malta Branch
October 23, 2009
WELCOME TO THE EPEA (MALTA) BRANCH.
The EPEA encourages the establishment of national branches to ensure that we are meeting the local, immediate and specific needs of our members, and in order to represent their interests at a national and international level. Any such representation is stronger coming under the auspices of the firmly established, well respected and international EPEA organisation. Working locally and collaboratively within a branch structure allows members establish a national presence so that they can achieve their objectives within the overarching protection, support and benefits that only an international NGO can bring.
What does the EPEA understand by a branch?
The branch is the local organisation of the EPEA at a national level. It shares the same basic aims as the EPEA as well as its governance structure. In effect, the branch is the EPEA’s representative body in that country and it is the primary point of contact between the local members and the EPEA. The Steering Committee of the branch is comprised of elected volunteers responsible to the Steering Committee of the EPEA. The national branch itself cannot be an institutional member of the EPEA. The individual and institutional members of the national branch are automatically individual or institutional members of EPEA.
Dr. Joseph Giordmaina
President
