Hi All Lent:UK Goans sugar and salt This year for Lent I am giving up keeping quiet on matters affecting us as a community. For outsiders and innocent fellow Goans in daylight we look like sugar and salt all white and different shades of white . Try telling the difference in Darkness, this is where Gods gift of human senses comes in “Taste” without this who would know any different. Similarly the Goan Association (UK) on the outside looks like a proper community organisation in the light. However it takes a trained eye and education of how it operates in the dark and under cover of our Religion and Charity. Bravo to Mr Joe Rebello a life member in keeping us informed, the rest of our community is said to be deadwood. I beg to differ as in our DNA we are always in sleep mode in breadline Britain and perhaps around the world only coming into life on offers bargains and the next dance without any input or involvement into structure and organisation. We must be obliged to our voluntary workers caterers tiatris musicians and the Church for keeping us going and no thanks to the dark forces that feed of our needs. Just Saying Melvyn Fernandes, community worker since 1974 Thornton Heath Surrey England. 3 March 2017
