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Goa Sudharop Seniors e-book launch and awards to orphanages

Goa Sudharop Community Development Inc. a- non profit, volunteer working for betterment of Goa and Goans worldwide will launch Goa Sudharop Seniors e-book and make awards to Goan orphanages at the hands of their USA based co-founder Mr.George Pinto, on Tuesday, 8th May 2007 from 5.30 p.m, at Mandovi Hotel, Panjim.

The Seniors e-book is a collection of essay by and about Goa seniors from around the world. The book is edited by Valerie Rodrigues. Approximately, Rs.1, 75,000/- will be awarded to various Goan orphanages who serve orphans from different Goan communities, including some children who are affected by HIV/ AIDS.

PRESS RELEASE FROM GOA SUDHAROP COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INC.USA

8TH May 2007

“A MOSAIC OF MEMORIES” RELEASED.

The Goa Sudharop e-book titled “A Mosaic of Memories” was launched by USA- based co-founder of Goa Sudharop, Mr. George J. Pinto, at a well attended function at Hotel Mandovi this evening. The function also saw Goa Sudharop distributing cash awards amounting to approximately two lakhs to various Goan orphanages who serve orphans from different Goan communities, included children affected with HIV / AIDS.

Goa Sudharop observes 2007 as the Year of Goan Environment or one may say “Green Goa”.

We believe that the burning issue of our fast degrading environment witnessed the world over can be ignored only at our peril. Environmental scientists forewarn us that the global warming responsible for the climatic changes we experience will worsen and will make life difficult and unsafe in not too distant a future. Catastrophes like tsunami tidal waves, melting of glaciers world over including our Himalayas, rise in sea levels, droughts, heat waves, famines, epidemics, etc. will kill and render homeless millions of people world over, besides devastating billions of dollars worth assets and infrastructure, etc. as well as submerge millions of square kilometers low-lying lands like Bangladesh, Maldives and others! Environmentalists warn us again and again, that this is all due to human neglect, myopia and greed for unbridled material prosperity or “development” destroying in its wake the natural environment. God created this beautiful planet for us to live in peace and happiness, but we humans, like spoilt- children, keep on polluting the air, water, and land without realizing that nature is like our mother unfailingly sustaining us all the time. Mother nature gives us everything and at no cost but we in turn only destroy it instead of living in harmony with it. How sad? And, is it not a sin on our part to do so?

Honorable Seniors and Friends,

I am really happy to be here with you today for this Fitness Session specially sponsored by Goa Sudharop in association with Panjim Senior Citizens Guild with the resource person Mr. Mahesh S. Kamat. The initiative came from your President, Mr. Manuel Alvares and Goa Sudharop volunteer member Miss Valeria Rodrigues, which I do appreciate and thank for.

Goa Sudharop greatly respects and values our Seniors for they are the architects of our society, and are a vital link between our past and present, as also a precious help in building a vibrant future. They are a source of much needed wisdom and guidance to our youth.

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GOA SUDHAROP TO PRESENT ANNUAL AWARDS

Goa Sudharop Community Development Inc., a non- profit, volunteer NGO working for betterment of Goa and Goans  worldwide will present their annual awards at Caritas Complex Hall, St. Panjim, on 3rd January 2006, from 4.30 to 6.p.m.

In accordance with the Goa Sudharop theme for 2005 (Year of the Child) and realizing the monumental wok that needs to be done for the differently abled children in Goa, Goa Sudharop has chosen to make cash and other awards to deserving NGOs, Teachers and differently abled children in a modest effort to promote the care and integration of the differently abled in our society.