Since a very early age, I have always sustained a life-long interest in the Earth and in humanitarian sciences, particularly the study of ancient cultures and their relationships to their surroundings. The love for these subjects goes back to my childhood, growing up in my native village of Qala. Not very far away from my house, stood a huge and lonely boulder called the Standing Stone (The Menhir). From my classroom windows and on my way home, I used to stare, with fascination, at this stone, wondering how it had been placed there and thinking back to the time of our forefathers, the builders of the Maltese Islands.

Earth Foundation Society is a non-profit organization, founded by me, to further and promote more archeological excavations on the Maltese Islands, which, for the most part of the last century, have uncovered a treasure trove of Neolithic sites and a concentrated hotspot on the planet for archeologists to set their lifetime quests. Several sites, comprised of Neolithic temples have been designated as some of the oldest temples on this planet, older than Stonehenge, older than the pyramids, older than Jesus Christ, Buddha, and Confucius, dating back 6,000-8,000 years ago.

Earth Foundation Society is also home to other things that are close to my heart or on my mind. From the most urgent life and death issues to plain injustices, unfairness, or plain annoyance, to matters of principle, I will continue to support organizations doing noble and worthy work around the world. I would also suggest to you, to help them in their mission of unconditional love and selflessness, to help those unfortunate worldwide.

-Ray Buttigieg (New York 2003)