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With all my humility I can rightly say that the activities and the movements I did from Kuwait for the cause of Goa and Goans, none among the Kuwait Goans has done, not even among the expatriate Goans anywhere in the World, though to embark on such a path was not unusual nor new to me earlier because in Goa before coming to Kuwait I was deeply involved in my locality in organising activities be it on sporting arena or political field or social activities. The affairs of my village and locality went into the hands of stupid and selfish people only after I left my village and went to Kuwait. However, fortunately for me, whatever movement or activity I started, initiated and supported there was a mass support. The main reason for such a strong and the big support was the confidence people had in me, first to work till success is attained and secondly there was not a single paisa of misappropriation.
The major part of the strength for my movements was the people and my supporters, even my enemies supported my movements knowing that my movements are for good cause. If it was not for the support of my supporters, friends and colleagues, I would not be successful in organising so many powerful movements such as Konkani Movement, Novem Goem Daily Movement which I started when hardly I had a proper job, Konkani Heritage Kuwait Movement to unify all the Konkani people residing in Kuwait and to help the repatriation of maids, Goa-Kuwait Solidarity Center Movement to raise our voice against the invasion of Kuwait and to demand liberation for Kuwait, Freedom for the Kuwait’s POW’s Movement, for this I personally went to Delhi and personally met all the top leaders of the top countries and the top World organisations and submitted them the Memoranda requesting them to make some extra efforts by putting pressure on Saddam Hussein to release the Kuwait’s POW’s. All these superlative efforts I did on my own initiative and on behalf of Goa-Kuwait Solidarity Center. Then for the direct Goa-Kuwait-Goa flight I even went to Delhi on my own initiative and brought to the notice of the Central Government leaders the necessity of introducing this flight and for the promotion of our competitive soccer at Sour Grounds I left no stone unturned. Besides, I have done so many movements and activities at smaller scale level.
lf by going back to three decades and think for a while how I managed to do so much when I had so many drawbacks, so many hurdles and so many deficiencies, I cannot get proper answer yet I get the conclusion that my success was only and ONLY DUE TO THE STRONG SUPPORT I HAD FROM ALL MY FRIENDS, COLLEAGUES, ASSOCIATES AND SUPPORTERS, very many of them are still in Kuwait. And by personally phoning me occasionally and others regularly they enquire about my health and well being. This is something great that they still remember me and the days we spent together in organising different movements.
Four years back when I published and released my book “FROM COCONUT TREES TO OIL WELLS”, all my friends and former colleagues who were still working in Kuwait, spontaneously and very much voluntarily communicated to me asking me to reserve them their copies or send thru anyone. They all indicated their love and affection to me by voluntarily purchasing my book and promptly effecting the payment knowing very well the amount I spent to prepare this book for which once again I profusely thank them expecting the same type of support this time too. And above all I must salute a few more individuals namely Domnick Araujo and Gasper Crasto who spared no efforts to sell my book in big number and because of their tremendous efforts I managed to sell over 300 copies of my last book in Kuwait alone that made my position very comfortable.
In the light of the past benevolence, once again I request my friends and colleagues who helped me earlier, please again this time too help me. The price of this book is 250/- Rupees and to send by post another Rs. 50/-. We will start selling this book immediately after the Lockdown period is over. This book is written by A. Veronica Fernandes original in English and transliterated and edited by Valley Quadros from Mangalore and published by Konkonngar Prokoxon, at Candolim, Araddy, Bardez, Goa.
A.Veroica Fernandes.
In the light of the past benevolence, once again I request my friends and colleagues who helped me earlier, please again this time too help me. The price of this book is 250/- Rupees and to send by post another Rs. 50/-. We will start selling this book immediately after the Lockdown period is over. This book is written by A. Veronica Fernandes original in English and transliterated and edited by Valley Quadros from Mangalore and published by Konkonngar Prokoxon, at Candolim, Araddy, Bardez, Goa.
A.Veroica Fernandes.