A very heart-warming story indeed.
There are perhaps thousands of such needy families in Goa. We need to reach
out to help them become self sufficient. As the saying goes "give a man
some fish and he will feed his family for a day, instead give him a fishing
line or fishing net and he will
Editor's Note: Preetu Nair's first article on this subject titled "Living on
7 rupees a day!" was posted on Goanet in October 2006. Preetu Nair
consistently draws our attention to social issues that are sometimes
neglected in Goa:
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