Thanks Fred and Tina Perhaps fellow Saligaokars can arrange a time to kills several birds at one stone by meeting with her at a venue to be determined ?
Otherwise am happy to liaise directly with Tina ? Cheers A Anthony (Long Tony ) Fernandes E11 London [image: --] A.ANTHONY(Tony) FERNANDES [image: http://] On Thu, 22 Aug 2019 at 10:41, Frederick Noronha <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear all: > > If you are a Saligaokar in London, and would like to know more about the > Saligao Institute, its activities, or even become a member, please get in > touch with the SI Treasurer Tina (Assumtina) Cordeiro via email > [email protected] or WhatsApp ++91 98501 44178 > > Tina is in London for the next three weeks, and would be happy to meet up > with anyone interested, to discuss ideas, suggestions and request as far as > activities of the 90-year-old Saligao Institute go. As you know we are > attempting a revival of activities, and have already started on some plans. > A lot more are in the pipeline, but we need your feedback, involvement, > ideas and suggestions to take all this forward. We are also open to > productive and practical-to-implement suggestions. > > Above all, we do need more members, wherever you might be in the globe. > Distance is hardly felt very much these days! > > A membership to the SI might not bring you direct returns -- specially if > you live beyond two kilometres away from the 'club', and are unable to > frequent it often. In any case, many of our activities are open to members > and their guests. > > At the same time, as far as the institute goes, the SI cannot spend monies > received as life memberships (present a reasonable Rs 5k) and has to keep > it in safely away in fixed deposits, for future, long-term and capital > outlays. > > So, why at all become a life member, you might ask? > > On the one hand, it's a small way of paying back to an institution which > had such an important role in shaping so many of our youth. It helps us > keep in touch with you too. We have a stronger critical mass of people with > a stake in keeping the institution going. > > At another level, it can be a vital link to say that your Saligao identity > still holds meaning in your life. You know your act of taking up a > membership could (rpt, *could*, depending on how successful we all are in > implementing our plans) contribute towards a positive village revival. > Migration need not be the end of a generations-old connect. > > As far as we are concerned, we would also be enthused by your response, > and surely feel a greater responsibility to take SI ahead, knowing fully > well that our village is with us, regardless of the distance in this cyber > age when it's sometimes easier to connect with someone in Wimbledon than in > Pequeno Morod! > > While on this point, we are also grateful to another of our member, > Clarice Vaz, who recently help build links with Saligaokars in Canada > during her trip, for personal reasons, there..... > > Do get in touch, via Tina, via WhatsApp, or email. Thanks and regards. For > the 2019-2021 Committee, FN/general secretary. > -- -- Saligao-Net is at http://groups.google.com/group/saligao-net To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe email [email protected] --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Saligao-Net" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/saligao-net/CANaNzASure6UB5FhBqiiJUvMV%3DWd%3DAu1sp%3D3WajLVOfuBwUUJw%40mail.gmail.com.
