Vassallo Group employees dress down for charity

Over €6,000 were collected by Vassallo Group employees through various activities organised in aid of Pink October and the Breast Cancer Foundation. Initiatives included a dress down day across the Group, a hot dog day by Vassallo Builders and Caremalta Head Office staff, and the selling of Breast Cancer awareness pins by employees who work at Roseville, one of Caremalta’s homes.

Money collected was presented to Mrs Michelle Muscat, the Prime Minister’s wife who is also the chairperson of the Marigold Foundation, by Natalie Briffa Farrugia, CEO of Caremalta and director at Vassallo Group. The presentation was held at Casa Apap Bologna in Mosta, the new respite home for persons with disability run by HILA, one of the newest companies within the Vassallo Group.

Mrs Briffa Farrugia spoke about the Group’s efforts to raise awareness among its workforce on the need to take the necessary measures to prevent cancer and live a healthy lifestyle in general. This topic was in fact included in the first Healthy Lifestyles Week organised across the Group late last year. She explained that apart from this the Group supports employees who go through a rough time due to illness. This is done through the Arkati Foundation, an internal charity within the Group. However, “the Group also assists other initiatives, as was the case with the Pink October initiative, as part of its corporate responsibility,” concluded Mrs Briffa Farrugia.