It is a hard fact that due to our employment in Kuwait we made lot of strides in life though we worked hard facing hard life in Kuwait. Even by working in Goa we would survive well but would never be able to achieve financially and socially what we most of us has achieved by working in Goa. It is people like me coming from poor background that benefited more from our employment in Kuwait and overwhelming majority of Goans working in Kuwait are from this segment. Rich people do not want to go to Kuwait for employment, it is only people from our category for this reason we worked there inspite of undergoing harassment and humiliation.
We were not receiving Heavenly Mannas in Kuwait, we were struggling day and night to meet our ends. Yet we are grateful to Kuwait because Kuwait gave us financial stability and social identity. It is by working in Kuwait that we built nice bungalows, gave good education to our children and elevated our social standing. Would it be possible for us to attain this level without working in Kuwait? Never. For this reason we are grateful to Kuwait because what our society and our government could not provide us finally Kuwait provided us. Thank You Kuwait. Some of us got girls to marry only because of our employment in Kuwait.
With this gratitude in mind we supported Kuwait’s liberation movement 25 years back when Kuwait was invaded by Iraq on 2.8.90, however, to our regret overwhelming majority of Kuwait evacuees failed to participate in this movement. What was surprising that on top of it they criticized the makers and supporters of this movement as if they made a mistake. Again the same criticism when this year on 25thFeb. we celebrated 25th anniversary of the liberation of Kuwait. What would be the fate of many of us if Kuwait was not liberated in 7 months only on 26th Feb. 1991? They would fall on the road. One Ladru from Nagoa Bardez who was earlier working in the Bank in Kuwait and who refused to support Kuwait finally started selling Pao-Baji in Anjuna Beach to the tourists, after he returned to Goa from invaded Kuwait. At least he was doing something but many others were doing something illicit to earn their daily bread while many more were living in misery.
Kuwait gave us something beyond our imagination. The Ladru from Nagoa was just an SSC and as such he was not fit enough to get even a Peon’s job in the Bank in Goa but Kuwait gave him White Collar Job in the Bank. Like this, plenty of Ladrus came up in life because of their employment in Kuwait but when Kuwait’s turn came to receive support from us, all these Ladrus, sons and daughters of Ladrus and Pedrus refused to support Kuwait. But when Kuwait was liberated these same Ladrus and Pedrus sprinted first to go to Kuwait for employment. The Ladru from Nagoa left his “Handi” of Pao Baji at Anjuna Beach only and ran to Kuwait to earn the revised value of the Dinar. But this same Ladru had no conscience to support Kuwait during its critical time.
Even now on 25thFebruary when Goa-Kuwait Solidarity Center organized a function in Panjim to mark the 25th anniversary of the liberation of Kuwait, this same illiterate and intellectually bankrupt Ladru not only abstained from joining the 25t Feb. function out of gratitude for Kuwait but on top of it started criticizing the organizers of this function. Incidentally, the same rascal like a Pimp sent his wife to work in Kuwait while he remained in Goa. This type of Pimps we have plenty among Kuwait Goans who are fit only for talking but not for introducing any input. “He dadle, apun nidtat ghora and apleam bhailank dhaddtat bhaddeak Kuwaitak”, on top of it they refuse due respect to Kuwait.
A.Veronica Fernandes,
Candolim, Goa.
Tel: 7507394349.