Dear Rene Barreto, I applaud you for your efforts towards organizing GOA DAY 2002 (August 17, 18). I would like to repeat some of what I said last year on the occasion of GOA DAY.
GOA SUDHAROP (www.goasudharop.org) is committed to sharing the pride and joy Goans feel as a community on GOA DAY this year. Our manner of celebration is to try and give something back to our community by improving and developing Goa. Our efforts are very minor but we are trying. Other Goans have given back differently and impressively. Whether they have built cyber communities, donated money, time, skills, computers, or work for the underpriveledged, etc., there is hopefully a significant increase in altruism, based on our traditional Goan emphathy for humanity I suppose. Our worldwide celebration of GOA DAY should not be minimized. It compares no less with the Irish efforts of ST. PATRICK'S DAY and America's INDEPENDENCE DAY (minus the commercial marketing of those days) in preserving our identity. If we want to be, we can be a proud people, holding our own on the world stage. We have our own music, art, cuisine, history, literature, etc. Let's hope we speficially set aside some time this GOA DAY to celebrate our culture. Congratulations to you and everyone who has contributed to making this GOA DAY happen again. Best wishes, George Pinto __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? LAUNCH - Your Yahoo! Music Experience http://launch.yahoo.com =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-W-E-B---S-I-T-E-=-=-= To Subscribe/Unsubscribe from GoaNet | http://www.goacom.com/goanet =================================================================== For (un)subscribing or for help, Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dont want so many e=mails? Join GoaNet-Digest instead ! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Help support non-commercial projects in Goa by advertizing!! * * * * Your ad here !!
