Dear Vivian, The best place to find a helping hand....is the end of one's own arm. If the NRIs, and NRI returnees, do not help themselves, nobody will. Native Goans elbow their way into Government-funded NRI organisiations for 1.Position, 2. a platform to make pious speeches with a captive audience or, where ever possible , for 3.pecuniary benefit, foreign junkets and the like. There is a trip happening end of this month to the Gulf . What the amn brought from Athens Olympics for hockey in Goa is information that there are Goans living in Greece! Chandrakant Keni is at the moment that pious catholics pray for Our Lady's assistance in the "Holy Mary". What can he do for the NRIs?? What has he done for the NRIs in the last three years...Gomant Vishwa Sammellan and Gomant Darshan?? What did you achieve in the Global Goan Meet organised by Rene Barreto, the UK- based NRI from Patrong?? More talk? Is there something concrete happening. My friends and I have spent our time trying to help Rene. In another two weeks he will be gone. Then we will hear about the World Goa Day again. WGD is good....but it is not GOOD ENOUGH. If you want to be a part of a vibrant NRI Association, start meeting like minded people, draw up a constitution, register it with the Registrar of Societies, raise Life Membership, say a US$100.00 or equivalent in INR, open a bank account. If you have 20 life members and 3 are willing to work one day a month for the association for a year, I will help you achieve what no NRI organisation has achieve so far in terms of ability to help a NRI when he is down in Goa for a month. You have to be a part of the change that you want to see. Light a lamp, don't curse the darkness. Many hands make light work. JUST DO IT ! Viva Goa. Miguel
Vivian D'Souza wrote: Can someone let me/all of us know the status of the planned NRI Association in Goa ? I attended a meeting of NRIs in February at the Kala Academy, but had to leave early. Later I heard that as an outcome of that meeting, an Association of NRIs in Goa had been formed, with a certain leadership.
