Doha Goans Sports Club launch Benevolent Fund Packed audience for Konkani (tiatr) “Soglleank Nomoskar DOHA QATAR One of the Doha Goans Sports Club (DGSC) core objective is to reach out to the financially unfortunate brethren both in Qatar and Goa. With this objective in mind DGSC has launched a Benevolent Fund, which was formally launched on Friday, 24th September 2010, on the occasion of the Konkani (tiatr) “Soglleank Nomoskar” at the Al Ghazal Club in Doha Qatar.
“There are times when people are in dire straits and do not know where to knock for help. The club will set aside an amount for this purpose, it is our desire to also get the community involved in such humanitarian task and we will continue to conduct events to support this cause,” said the DGSC in their press release. “After deep introspection, and considering many difficulties and problems faced by our Goan brethren in the past, Doha Goans Sports Club came forward to introduce a special and completely separate fund i.e. " benevolent fund" to help all needy Goans which will be decided case by case i.e. solely those facing problems specially at the time of deportation, need of costly medicines/operation and those who really cannot afford etc,” the press note adds. On the occasion, the 19-members troupe which arrived from Goa performed meticulously and displayed enormous skills of superb acting and singing accompanied by colossal humour and comedy with a moral, all of which kept the 800-odd Konkani loving spectators spell bound during the 4-hours entertainment program. The program which was selected and executed by the club’s P.R.O. & director of Cultural & Social Affairs, Mauricio Pereira, along with the club’s Committee Members, commenced with the unveiling of the club’s banner with logo by Rev. Fr. Anand Castelino who was also the chief guest. That was a touching moment for many Goan residents who well remembered the good old times when the club had excelled in conducting various Social, Cultural and Sports events. Fr. Anand spoke on the need to preserve love and unity in the community and underlined the importance of keeping alive the Konkani language. The President, Ambrosio Dias, in his welcome address briefly explained the need of reviving DGSC which, under circumstances, was forced into silent mode and lamented over the deprivation of the Goan Community of leisure diversions since 2003. During the show prizes to lucky winners were distributed and the club also announced future Social, Cultural and Sports events. The very fact that the spectators were still sitting when the final curtain went down only spoke of the total enjoyment of the show organized by DGSC. The Konkani tiatr was the first major activity for DGSC which was revived three months back. The next evetn is slated for October 15, wherein an Inter-village football tournament will be held.