through NSTS-Student and Youth Travel, incorporating personal travel experiences into one's education process. Philanthropic dimension NSTF regularly executes deeds of a philanthropic character associated with the restoration and preservation of Malta’s cultural heritage. In this respect, the NSTF was instrumental in the restoration of two Maltese paintings, one associated with Giulio Cassarino (1582–1637), a follower of Caravaggio as is evident in his work, and the other of Carlo Zimech (1696–1766), a priest-painter hailing from Żebbuġ. Both paintings are found in the church dedicated to Our Virgin of Sorrows in Pietà. NSTF rendered possible the restoration of another masterpiece, "The Baptism of Christ" by Matteo Pérez d’Aleccio (1547–1616). After carrying out some work in the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican, he was brought to Malta by the Knights and commissioned for the narrative account of the Great Siege in the Hall of the Grand Council in the Grandmasters’ Palace and the Baptism of Christ altarpiece in St. John's Conventual Church, Valletta. His prestigious altarpiece long remained at the centerpiece of the Church until it was moved to the Sacristy in 1704, remaining there till 1996, when it was moved to the Museum of St John's. The painting had suffered enormously and NSTF intervened to sponsor a thorough cleaning and restoration operation in 1999. The statue of Christ the Saviour was restored and transferred to its present position at the Archbishop's Seminary at Tal-Virtu with the financial help from NSTF in 1984. The Foundation, in 1997, also actively supported the initial studies by experts from the Instituto Centrale per il Restauro of Rome who recommended the restoration works on the silver and gilded bronze reliquary containing the arm of St. John the Baptist. This was the work of Ciro Ferri (1634–1689), an Italian Baroque sculptor and painter who had worked on the extensive fresco decorations of the Quirinal Palace and the frescoed ceilings and other internal decorations in the Pitti Palace in Florence. This reliquary of St. John the Baptist is found at the Museum of the Co-Cathedral of St. John. NSTF's involvement was crucial for the restoration and preservation of one of the oldest chapels still standing in its original form, the St. Michael, "Is-Sancier" found in the outskirts of Rabat. Architecturally, it is dated round the middle of the fifteenth century, with two reinforcing structures added later. The chapel had been used by farmers as a store for tools and