The recently announced fiscal advantages to companies supporting heritage NGOs in their efforts to conserve Malta’s rich clutural heritage is being seen as a healthy collaboration between the private sector and Malta’s voluntary organisations.

Among the generous donors who have come forward to support Din l-Art Ħelwa, the Eden Leisure Group is providing the funds for the restoration of the organ mechanism at Our Lady of Victory church in Valletta.

Robert Buhagiar, BEng (Hons), started work on the 18th century musical instrument early this year and is now about to try out the bellows that would give the organ its voice. The group’s chairman Ian DeCesare visited Mr Buhagiar’s workshop to see for himself the progress in this painstakingly meticulous task.

DLĦ president Maria Grazia Cassar, while thanking the group, said: “It is so appropriate that a company engaged in providing entertainment is so generous in donating funds to bring back to life an old instrument that gave joy to so many for the past 250 years or so.”