Mr Sandro Chetcuti, as president of the property section of the GRTU, is being personally reviled for allegedly asking the government to stimulate the property market and in so doing, saving the government large sums of money by making the Housing Authority vote go further.
This is a matter pertaining to the GRTU, which justifiably has the interests of its members at heart.
What I really want to state, however, is that accusing Sandro Chetcuti of not having a heart and seeking only his own interests is very wrong. Sandro has a heart. When I was running The Eden Foundation, we needed help not only to raise the funds that were used to subsidise the parents’ fees, but we urgently needed a place outside the Foundation to act as an independent living centre. Sandro not only joined the fund-raising committee and helped to direct its efforts, but he gave to the Foundation a property of his at Marsascala to act as the independent living centre.
This centre housed adults who needed to be trained in the social and practical living skills that all of us take for granted, but which people with intellectual disability need to painstakingly learn if they are to live a normal life.
They had to learn how to use a kitchen, how to cook, how to shop, how to ensure personal hygiene, how to go out and meet friends and have fun. All this was possible only through the generosity of this man whose donation was a gift of life to so many young men and women who were only able to learn to function through his magnificent endowment.
Sandro Chetcuti is nothing if not generous and I find it really hard to believe that there are those who are ready to think that he wants to deprive people in need of a roof over their heads. It’s just not in the nature of this man.

Josie Muscat
Marsascala

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