Dear Sir/ Madam I’m Frazer Andrade, a native Goan youth, and pharmacist by profession. I have completed my post graduation at the Goa College of Pharmacy in 2020. I am native to Ambajim, Margao, Goa and a parishioner of the Holy Spirit Church in Margao. It hurts me a lot to see our identity being sold off to others. Our artifacts are being bought by people to whom these things are of no relevance, other than just their materialistic value. Looking at this, I somewhere felt that, it is my duty to care for our ancestral wealth, and hence I began preserving anything and everything belonging to Goa, and that formed a part of her rich heritage. I also started collecting and preserving old DISCARDED Christian articles from Goa, which were done away with, to make space for new modern religious icons/statues /oratories etc. Several of months ago, during my visit to Cuncolim, a village in South Goa, I witnessed a family, burning old wooden religious statues from their oratory (a traditional practice of doing away with unwanted/ damaged sacramentals), in order to make place for modern statues. It was indeed a heart aching experience for me where I was absolutely helpless, while I looked at living icons of faith being turned to ashes right in front of me. Only if I had reached the site a little early, maybe I could have saved these sacred pieces of history for posterity. Many a times people give away their unwanted old sacred images to churches where they are generally discarded appropriately. I would like to humbly request all the parishes / families across Goa, not to discard any of your old belongings. Also if you ever come across anyone who has any old religious articles or any other old household articles, who are wanting to do away with them, to make place for new modern ones, please share with them my contact details. They could hand them over to me and I promise I shall save them and preserve them with due respect and with a grateful heart for the sake of our future generations yet to come. I hope that you will help me in preserving our past for the future. PLEASE NOTE: I do not have any intensions of selling of these articles and entering into trade of such artifacts. My only motto is to be able to preserve these things for posterity. That is all. I would like to acknowledge all those who have offered me a lot of the objects I have saved and also those who have helped me in other ways to save our past for the future. Do help me in saving whatever remains from the past, for the future generations to witness and experience ! I strongly feel that it is my duty as a son of Goa, to be there for her when She is in need of me. Thank you so much! Do share this appeal with family and friends Dev borem korum.
Frazer Andrade Whatsapp on: 7057704853 Call on: 7498170127