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Visit http://www.garcabranca.com for details/booking/confirmation. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dear Save Goa Front, I have some rather depressing news for you. Goans "settled outside of Goa" do not care about Goa. I don't want to undermine the work done by such organisations as Goa Sudharop or the amounts repatriated by Gulf Goans or the interest shown by determined expatriate Goans, but apart from a minuscule minority, the vast majority of expatriate Goans and their children care a whit about Goa. I personally know of friends and family, people who benefited from a subsidised Goan education, who've gone on to become doctors and entrepreneurs in foreign countries, who have nothing but a passing interest in Goa. How else can you explain the lack of expatriate funded hospitals or schools or scholarships or even a heartfelt support of our writers or artists? Oprah Winfry who is no more African than J F Kennedy was Irish, has always maintained a bond with Africa. A bond that recently made possible a 40 million dollar school, in South Africa. Perhaps we've trained our ears not to listen to the wind-flute that calls our name from our native land. Perhaps we've become so engrossed in paying our second mortgages and driving our third car out of the 2 floor garage. Whatever it is, we've failed miserably and each succeeding generation distances itself even more. Please don't wait for the diaspora to help you. Goa rests in your own hands. We will have our functions where sorpatel is eaten with gusto and matters of Goa debated with indignation but that is as far it will go. A two week holiday and trinkets bought at Arjuna, completes this voyage of self-discovery on part of second-generation expat children. Goa belongs to you, Goans in Goa. You have to rise to the occasion, hold your representatives accountable, protect your institutions and create a society you are proud of and want to live in. selma --------------------------------------------- --- airesrod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The Save Goa Front (SGF) gives a clarion call to all > Goans settled outside Goa to raise their voices and > do > whatever possible to salvage Goa and the Goan > identity. There is a need for Goans across India and > the world to close ranks and Save Goa. > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Goanet mailing list Goanet@lists.goanet.org http://lists.goanet.org/listinfo.cgi/goanet-goanet.org