​More than €1,000 was raised by the Environment and Resources Authority (ERA) for charity, during the Christmas festive season. ERA, with the support of UNITE, the ERA staff sports and social committee, promoted an initiative during which all gifts and hampers received by its employees were donated to the Dar tal-Providenza, Siggiewi. During their annual fund-raising campaign held on the 1st of January 2017, the Dar tal-Providenza used all the gifts and hampers donated by ERA to organise various raffles to raise these funds.

A further €1,000 was raised during the ERA staff Christmas activity. These were donated to L-Istrina.