Charlo has over 20 years’ experience as a trainer and course coordinator, where he coordinated and delivered soft-skills training courses, ICT courses, and Forum Theatre and Street Theatre workshops, both locally and overseas. He also coached drama students at the National Drama Centre for two years. He also managed several awareness and educational campaigns on behalf of NGOs, government agencies as well as the European Commission.

For 11 years he worked as an Executive with Malta’s National Agency in the fields of addictions, namely gambling and substance abuse. For two years he worked as Research Executive within the Research Department. Later, he managed the community-based prevention programmes for four years, working closely with Local Councils, other public organisations and NGOs. Soon after, he was entrusted with the management of a team of peripatetic teachers for 5 years, working mainly with 11-17-year-old students. He also worked with adults, such as parents, non-formal educators, teachers, university students, nursing students, professionals, as well as prison inmates.

Furthermore, he devised several soft-skills training programmes and tools, co-authored training manuals for PSD, Home Economics and Social Studies teachers, authored several publications about addictions aimed at students and the general public, delivered ‘train the trainer’ courses, and organised and facilitated residential weekend courses for young people.

In 1999, he was actively involved in the setting up of a European network for young people, PATH-European Youth Without Drugs, and led several preparatory meetings, which were held in various European countries in preparation of a European conference, which the organisation held in Reykjavík (Iceland). He served as a national coordinator, regional coordinator for the Mediterranean region, and later as the Director General of this network.

Between 1997 and 2000 he served as the Director General of the national NGO Daritama, which at that time, ran a community school for children, a community radio (Radju Kottoner), and worked with prison inmates and their relatives.

Currently, he is one of the trainers at the School of Invention.