Dear Friend, I have received ( the original one again) Your concern is realistic, but nature is mighty and sometimes cruel.
My wife and I have started a programme to provided new cotton garments to 1000 children at the devastated villages of Tamil Nadu eastcoast. We shall start loading the children garments from 15th January, at the knit city " Tirupur " in Tamil Nadu. In case any of your friends want to join us, then please contact on email:- [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Thanks. regards Sat Mehra Austria Hallo, Sorry, I am late in reply, but we are planning our next village Beaches field work in Kerala, for women & children hygiene sanitation education programme. Thanks for the devastating photos. Can you explain, as to how these big 5 star hotels responsible for all that. We want Kerala to achieve prosperity through clean-beach-tourism. What we are trying to find is the mastakes made in Goa and other countries, to unstablise the ecology. Please let me have your study of information on the subject. Thanks We have visited many eastern countries like Malaysia, Thailand etc. with clean-beach-tourism. 20 years back, they were less developed than India. Today, their total economy is greatly dependant on clean-beach-tourism. Against Kerala's total foreign earnings (2003) of USD 220.- million, their earnings are over USD 6 BILLION ( 27 times that of Kerala. Same is the case in a conservative Oriental country - " Turkey " We made a list of precautions they have taken to protact their envirnment. The most important was, that they use sea sand mining, to take the sand from the sea and keep throwing on the beaches, and leveling those, from time to time.Unless there is a very severe harricane, their beaches are alright. If because of such a hazard, some demmage is there, then they immediately they repair with sea sand mining. We in India has a problem. Because of less clean-beach-tourism, there is much less money for such measures. Some of Kerala's coastal villagers, even today earn Rs. 1.000.- per month. Many have no toilets of their own and have to use the beaches, thereby scaring the foreign tourists away. The British had started Kovalum exclusively for their officers to spend beach holidays. Upto today, that is the only fuctional beach inm Kerala, where foreign tourists come. It is really a pity that we Indians can't find compromise between ecology and economy. There is plenty of place in Kerala, where small tourist bungalows can be made, hidden behind the millions of coconut trees, all around the beach as well as Backwater areas. Kerala has more to offer than any other asian beach destination, but because of bad management and planning, the Kerala youth with university degrees, go to Gulf countries, leaving young wives and small children at home, to take even meagre jobs, living 4 - 6 youngmen in small rooms and forgoing home comfort. This is an appeal to all Goans, to come forward with suggestions and voluntary work, to find ways and means to improve our environment, and teach coatal villagers the methods to improve clean-beach-tourism, without sacrificing our coastal ecology. Regrads, Sat Mehra Austria > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "diogo monteiro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, September 27, 2004 9:02 PM > Subject: Sinquerim Beach in Goa > > > > Hi there, > > I was in Goa for few days visiting my family and I visited one of my > friend > > in Sinquerim who has a small hotel and restaurant just next to Taj > Village > > Beach Resort. I could'nt belive the destruction of the this beautifull > beach > > by the high waves due to the cause of construction of restaurants just > 50 > > meters away from the beach. > > > > If we don't take any precaution in the future to protect this beach and > if > > we don't stop constructing hotels and restaurants, Goa might face > ecological > > problems due to our own negligence and greed to make money by destroying > our > > environment. > > > > Kind regards > > > > Diogo Monteiro > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > The new MSN 8: smart spam protection and 2 months FREE* > > http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail > > > -- GMX ProMail mit bestem Virenschutz http://www.gmx.net/de/go/mail +++ Empfehlung der Redaktion +++ Internet Professionell 10/04 +++ -- +++ Sparen Sie mit GMX DSL +++ http://www.gmx.net/de/go/dsl AKTION f�r Wechsler: DSL-Tarife ab 3,99 EUR/Monat + Startguthaben
