The energy ministry is looking at options to help animal sanctuaries after a young activist drew attention to their plight, sending a letter requesting the waiving of their water and electricity bills during the pandemic months.
In her handwritten plea to Energy Minister Miriam Dalli, nine-year-old Kristina D’Amato asked whether the government could “help all the sanctuaries not pay water and electricity bills during a time when they were no longer able to fundraise”.
“I am sure that the animals will be very happy with some kind of help,” the dog-lover-turned-fundraiser for their cause said.
She signed off hoping to meet Dalli one day “so together we can make the world a better place” and was soon driving to the Association of Abandoned Animals premises, in Birżebbuġa, in the minister’s car to participate in a corporate social responsibility event and donate food and other items to the dogs there.