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GO recently teamed up with the organisers of a fund-raising activity towards setting up a new residential home for underprivileged boys. In line with its ongoing drive to enhance living standards in the local community, GO responded to a call for assistance from St Patrick’s Salesian School and Residential Children’s Services promptly pledging its full support by way of services and products from a wide range offered by the company besides the normal cash donation.

St Patrick’s was the primary reason that the Salesians of Don Bosco came to Malta over a century ago and their sterling work with disadvantaged boys and youths over the years has won them unanimous respect and esteem in the Maltese Islands. The Salesians’ work in St Patrick’s focuses on meeting the comprehensive needs of children - compelled to live in care - where their past traumas can be addressed and their future gradually reconstructed.

The new residential home in Balzan for which funds are being raised is yet another of the Salesians’ ingenious pilot-projects. It will see the launch of a domestic-style house for up to six children - setting off a new era in child-friendly provision of residential services in Malta.

“GO is delighted to have the opportunity of giving this exceptional project its full support. We sincerely hope that our contribution has enhanced the vast efforts of the fund-raising campaign and played an active role in the success of this humane project which targets the welfare of needy youngsters,” said Priscilla Pirotta from GO’s Sponsorship and CSR team.

“The initiative underlines our strong involvement with the Maltese community. The donation proves that GO is truly committed to the principles of effective corporate social responsibility. Over the past year or so the company has stepped up its drive towards implementing a wide-ranging CSR programme of initiatives that target an improved quality of life for the society in which it operates,” she went on.

Fr. Antoine Farrugia sdb who heads the Care Team at St Patrick’s, thanked GO for its support and said that the success of their fund-raising campaigns in aid of such projects largely depended on the generosity of community-focussed companies like GO. “St Patrick’s is about caring for boys and youths who are part and parcel of the local community. Raising funds to speed up the completion of the Don Bosco residential home for boys can be considered as a shared responsibility that will undoubtedly give its young inmates a better chance of integrating in the future society of Malta.”