Malta’s Beloved Charity Shop Prospects Faces Financial Crossroads: Can Community Spirit Outrun Rising Rents?
Financial analysis: Does Prospects have a future? By 8 a.m. on a humid July morning, the queue outside Prospects charity shop in Ħamrun already snakes past the old kiosks selling pastizzi and cheap phone cards. Retired seamstresses, Syrian families and Maltese pensioners clutching plastic bags of last season’s clothes, waiting for the roller shutter to…