Maltco Lotteries, presented Her Excellency, Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca, President of Malta with a cheque for €10,000 in support of the President's Solidarity Fun Run 2016 in aid of the Malta Community Chest Fund Foundation.

The President's Solidarity Fun Run brings together the whole nation in an effort to help those in need and also promotes the importance of an active healthy lifestyle through regular physical activity.

The Malta Community Chest Fund Foundation provides financial, material and professional support to people experiencing difficulties because of severe chronic illness, such as cancer.

The foundation also supports persons with disability, people in poverty and NGOs through the Fund for Voluntary Organisations.Maltco Lotteries CEO Vasileios Kasiotakis said: "Maltco Lotteries supports this event as part of our community support, with the company having also mobilised its Agents on behalf of the Malta Community Chest Fund Foundation. Maltco Lotteries is pleased to combine with the enthusiasm and generosity of the Maltese people to raise funds for such a worthy cause."

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