Visiting
"The Friends" have a dedicated number of volunteers, several belonging to the Catholic Action, who visit the elderly every fortnight in the Gozo General Hospital and, at various times, those in the three private Homes for the Elderly.
Another group visits the psychiatric patients at the hospital every week, normally on a Wednesday; hence they call themselves "The Wednesday Friends".
Members of each group converse with the elderly and the patients, comfort them and give them small token presents, including toiletries, fruit and useful objects.
On the two hospital feast-days (the Sacred Heart and the Holy Family) they provide special culinary treats and organise parties for them. Whenever possible, the same groups arrange outings for the institutionalised and housebound elderly, using the bus donated for the purpose by the Welfare Committee (when available) or hiring one for them.