The Mayor of Qala, Paul Buttigieg, recently gave an inspiring talk on the efforts involved in trying to safeguard Hondoq ir-Rummien, to a group of professors and doctoral research students during one of the series of network wide training events organised by SoliDi https://www.solidi.eu/ exploring place-based practices of solidarity.

The organisers said that the group met at Hondoq ir-Rummien, a site that has been the focus of political activist efforts throughout the last 20 years with the aim of preventing disastrous social, cultural and environmental effects from unnecessary land and marine related developments

They explained that “the Mayor has drawn on his long activist experiences in creating solidarities within the Qala community, numerous Gozitan, Maltese and International groups who have taken concrete action in favour of saving Hondoq from environmental ruin, which itself would be a recipe for failure to attract tourists to this unspoilt natural gem.”

The activity was organised by Associate Professor Simone Galea from the Department of Education Studies, the Faculty of Education who is part of the Solidi Consortium European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions.

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