Ilma Jew Points? How Your Weekly Xirja Can Contribute To Local Research
Who knew that loyalty points at one of Malta’s leading supermarkets could make a real difference and help the brightest minds on the island?
With Welbee’s exclusive mobile app, customers and loyalty card members can donate their points to a wealth of amazing causes around the island.
But few stand out more than RIDT, Malta’s very own Research Trust at the University of Malta.
The Research Innovation and Development Trust (RIDT) has been around for more than a decade, funding vital research projects happening locally that tackle everything from cancer to Malta’s first-ever mission to space.
Here’s why you should put your Welbee’s loyalty points towards research in Malta today, with a donation to RIDT:
1. You’ll be supporting Malta’s brightest minds as they tackle the big issues
Sometimes in Malta, it’s easy to feel helpless in affecting real change and tackling the real problems we face on a day-to-day basis.
But who would have thought that your weekly shop could help fund the change you want to see in the world.
Since launching in 2011, RIDT has funded dozens of research projects at the University of Malta.
The trust has helped scientists and PHD students who are making game-changing discoveries in some of the world’s most important medical fields whether that’s cancer, osteoporosis, Parkinson’s disease and kidney disease.
But RIDT hasn’t stopped there helping fund crucial studies in engineering, art conservation, climate change and archaeology.
At its core, RIDT is helping pioneer new techniques and innovations in a wide range of vital fields, keeping Malta firmly on the global map for scientific innovation.
2. Anyone can make a difference – no matter how much you donate
It might sound cheesy, but every little bit does help in making a major impact. It’s about all of us working collectively to help out where we can and push for serious change.
I know it can be easy to feel that a small donation won’t make a difference, but the truth is even the smallest contribution has the power to one day change someone’s life.
Just take a look at the work L-Istrina has done over the years. It’s living proof that collective action can make a significant impact.
Every donation that reaches RIDT is a vital piece of a far larger funding jigsaw puzzle. Put together, all the contributions of people like you can support entire research projects at the University of Malta, which hopes to find solutions to challenges people face every day.
3. You can help create a better tomorrow
RIDT’s vision is to reinvent ourselves so that we can thrive in tomorrow’s world. It’s a message we can all get behind and is even more vital in the face of an uncertain future following the pandemic and war in Europe.
The University of Malta – with the support of funding secured through RIDT – is already a key player in the worldwide effort to discover what lies beyond, to ask why, what, how, and more importantly, what if.
As exciting as that is, even the greatest inventions and discoveries that we now take for granted took time, perseverance, patience and importantly funds to become a reality.
In our rapidly changing world, it is becoming more and more important to innovate, in the hope of creating a better quality of life for both people and our planet tomorrow.
4. It’s quick and easy to donate to RIDT via the Welbee’s app
The best part about all of this is that donating is as easy as ABC. All you need to do to donate to RIDT, or any other incredible cause, is download the Welbee’s app on your phone.
It’s available on the App Store (iOS) or Play Store (Android) and register for free.
When you’re next at any of the many Welbee’s supermarkets across the islands, your loyalty points can be redeemed to become a donation to RIDT.
Just make sure you check out the donations section which is on the homepage to exchange your points into a cash donation.
And just like that – you are supporting important research and scientists in Malta. Thank you!
Do you plan to use your Welbee’s loyalty points to support research in Malta?
Find out more about how your donation to RIDT is helping research projects in Malta at www.researchtrustmalta.eu.