Ms. Sarah Bondin graduated from the University of Malta with a bachelor’s degree in psychology in 2002. She worked in various social care fields with non-governmental organisations including direct work with homeless women, children on the autism spectrum and young-people in out-of-home care, the latter as a Coordinator of a Home for unaccompanied minors asylum seekers. She obtained a Post-Graduate Certificate in Systemic Thinking from Tavistock Clinic in 2005 which she mostly applied in organisational settings, first as Head of Care and later as Service Manager for the Agency for the Welfare of Asylum Seekers. In her work in the field of migration she particularly focused on unaccompanied minors and vulnerable asylum seekers. She was a national expert on age and vulnerability assessment and as part of the senior management team she was also responsible for the development of services and the strategic development of the agency. She served as an expert on the development of a curriculum for reception workers at the European Asylum Support Office. Ms. Bondin continued her studies by reading for a Masters of Arts in Policy, Management and Government at the University of York where she graduated in 2013. In 2015 she started her journey as Director of The President’s Trust (later The Malta Trust Foundation) till early 2024 when she joined Fondazzjoni Suret il-Bniedem. Ms. Bondin is also a part-time lecturer of psychology at the Institute of Applied Health Sciences at MCAST. She enjoys travelling, reading and swimming and is a mother to a young teenager.
