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Goanet joins Noel Rebello to raise money for Daddy's Home (Margao, Goa) Sponsor Noel as he climbs Mt. Kilimanjaro (5,882m or 19,298 ft) Make a donation at www.Goanet.org, click on MAKE A DONATION, state "Daddy's Home" in the Donation comments For more information see: http://bit.ly/SupportDaddysHome --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------- Do GOACAN a favour, circulate this email to your family members, relatives, neighbours and friends. Help other CONSUMERS to be better informed. ----------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------- GOACAN to observe a Crime Prevention Awareness Fortnight ---------------------------------------------------------------- GOACAN will observe a Crime Prevention Awareness Fortnight from 17th September to positively harness consumer power to respond to the rise in crimes at the village, Taluka, District and State level. During the fortnight GOACAN alongwith the village based Consumer Forums will engage the officials of the Goa Police in dialogue on the causes for the rising crime in the State and the measures that need to be adopted at the community level. The Consumer Forum volunteers will move proposals at the respective Village Panchayat Gram Sabha meetings to discuss the rising crime situation and possible interventions at the level of the neighbourhood. Forum volunteers will examine measures to make the Beat Police system effective, the Tenant Verification system fully operational and the Neighbourhood Crime Watch Cell a possibility. The Consumer Forum volunteers will follow-up on the presentation of the Annual State of the Law & Order, Security and Crime Report by the Police Officers to the respective Village Gram Sabha with the relevant recommendations for community action. GOACAN will pursue the setting up of two District level full fledged Police Stations to handle the prevention and investigation of Crimes against Women & Children. Besides GOACAN will also pursue the setting up of a Crime Prevention Education Cell at the State level which will concentrate on educational institutions at School, Higher Secondary and College level in collaboration with the NCC, NSS, CWC and PTA's. During the fortnight GOACAN will promote the preparation of community level strategies to protect neighbourhoods, markets, religious places and recreation areas from crime. GOACAN will also petition the Tourism Department, Goa Tourism Development Corporation, Govt. of India Tourist Office and the Travel & Tourism Association of Goa to prepare a special Crime Prevention Plan for the coastal villages which encounter large domestic & foreign tourist arrivals due to beach tourism. GOACAN will also petition the Police Department to put in place a separate Crime Prevention Plan for the benefit of Senior Citizens who have received Identity Cards from the Directorate of Social Welfare. Meanwhile GOACAN invites consumers to send in their suggestions & complaints on Crime Prevention by post to GOACAN Post Box 187 Margao 403 601 or on email to goa...@gmail.com ---------------------------------------------------------- GOA CIVIC AND CONSUMER ACTION NETWORK ---------------------------------------------------------- promoting civic and consumer rights in Goa ---------------------------------------------------------- GOACAN Post Box 187 Margao, Goa 403 601 GOACAN Post Box 78 Mapusa, Goa 403 507 mail: goa...@gmail.com Visit: http://goacan.blogspot.com ----------------------------------------------------------