GBE cleans Chandor Cavorim roadside garbage
In a two hour long effort 25 villagers of Chandor Cavorim filled up over 30 big black bags with plastic and paper lying by the roadside. The exercise was initiated by GBE and supported by Chandor Club, Chandor Guirdolim Veterans, Chandor Seamen Association, Guirdolim Club and Villa Marex. The drive started at 8:30 am and concluded at 10:30 am. The main road from Cotta bridge to deputy sarpanch Arlinda’s house at Bindimoll, Misamer and the market square were cleaned. The collected waste was disposed off through Goa Solid Waste Corporation and a similar drive will be done im Guirdolim on November 14. While most of the participants were GBE members some represented other organisations. Felix Furtado and Emerson represented Chandor Club, Sandeep and Santana...
Read MoreDiscover Goa
Ganv Bhavancho Ekvott held its annual overnight programme “Discover Goa” on 13th and 14th September where in all 23 members visited Bardez taluka, spent the night in Ilhas and next morning explored Mormugao taluka. Visiting Santrem beach where members successfully angled fish thereby getting formalin free fish and the Our Lady of Rosary Church at Curca were real discovery for many members as these were places they were seeing for the first time. The following members went to discover Goa: Irene Antao, Maria Mascarenhas, Basil Fernandes, Sebastiana Cardozo, Alzira Pereira and her husband Benny, Julio D’Silva, Cecilia D’Silva and Caesar D’Silva, Darwin Cardoso with his daughter Deborah and niece Daniella, Susie with her neighbours Ebony and Delilah,...
Read MoreProf Prajal tells Chandorkars their history and heritage
Noted Historian Prajal Sakhardande while asserting that Chandor was the most historical place in Goa being its first capital made a fervent plea to preserve and protect the remnants of the old Kadamba Fort that is still existing at Cotta in the village. Deliver a talk on Heritage of Chandor: The first capital of Goa, he said that Chandor village which was known as Chandra Aura at that time was the first capital of the Bhoj dynasty in the 4th to 6th Century as indicated by three copper plates existing in Shiroda whereby King Devrai Bhoj gave a land grant tp some priests. He said the name Chandra Aura later changed to Chandreshwar and then to Chandranath and finally was known as Chandrapur and explained why the names changed and said that during the Portuguese...
Read More22 Chandorkars trained in fruit & vegetable preservation
Ganv Bhavancho Ekvott supported by Rotary Club of Cuncolim organized a “fruit and Vegetable Preservation course for people of Chandor for three days which was attended by 22 people. The course was conducted by Gajanan Tari a former employee of the Food and Nutrition Board of the Central Ministry of Women and Child and he taught the participants six different items all recommended by the Central Food Technological Research Institute at Mysore. Spread out over three days, the participants were guided as they prepared lime cordial, chilli pickle, mixed fruit jam, lime peel pickle and tomato ketchup. The course was conducted at the GBE meeting place and the following members also got trained: Sebastiana Cardozo, Maria Mascarenhas, Irene Antao, Serena Antao and...
Read MoreGBE members visit aged people
Ganv Bhavancho Ekvott on 5th August 2018 visited the Home for the Aged at Cotta and besides interacting with the 15 inmates they also showed them a Konkani film titled “Chor Pulis” which was enjoyed very much by the spectators. GBE members Sebastiana Cardoso, Serena Antao, Lindarifa Fernandes, John Douglas Coutinho, Irene Antao, Emerson Britto, Maria Mascarenhas, Jose Coutinho, Benito Coutinho, Michael Gracias, Anthony Pereira, Derick Antao, Michelle Antao, Basil Fernandes, Cypriano Fernandes, Darwin Cardoso with his son Nikolai, Anand Shirodkar, Domnick Mendes and Julio D’Silva visited the home for the aged. Anthony Pereira along with Domnick Mendes and Maria Mascarenhas who were accompanied by Cypriano on the guitar entertained the inmates with some...
Read MoreGBE Gets New Managing Committee
Ganv Bhavancho Ekvott at its annual general body meeting held on 7th July 2018 unanimously elected a new Managing Committee headed by Julio D’Silva as the President. The elections were conducted by Felix Furtado who volunteered to be the Election Commissioner. It may be recalled that Julio D’Silva was the founder general secretary when the Ganv Bhavancho Ekvott was formally registered with the Registrar of Co-operative Societies 10 years ago and served as the general secretary till May 2015. His name was proposed by Michael Pereira and seconded by John D Coutinho. Maria Mascarenhas and Irene Antao were elected as the two vice presidents. Incidentally both Maria and Irene were members of the earlier managing committee. While Maria’s name was proposed by Julio...
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