Ludovina presented Global Teachers Award
Ludovina Menezes a government school teacher from Goa who was born and grew up at Molla Guirdolim, was presented the prestigious Global Teachers Award recently by MVLA Trust at a function held at Hyderabad making her the only Goan to get this award. Ludovina hailing from Velim has been a teacher right from the time she was studying at Chowgule college when she started teaching the primary classes. After working in the primary school for four years she taught at Chandrabaga Tukoba Higher Secondary School for two years. Then she was appointed a teacher at a Government High School for the last 30 years has taught at different high schools in Quepem and Sanguem talukas. She taught at the Rivona Colomb school for 12 years. Ludovina who has Masters degree in English...
Read MoreHectic Weekend for GBE
It was a hectic weekend on 6th and 7th October as Ganv Bhavancho Ekvott had two different programmes on those days. On 6th October Deputy Superintendent of Police Raju Raut Dessai along with officials of Maina Curtorim Police station visited the village to interact with the people and on 7th October was the exhibition of the photography competition. The DySP visited Chandor along with the Police Inspector of Maina Curtorim Police Station Pravinkumar Vast, Police Sub Inspector at the Chandor police out post Amin Naik and police constables at the outpost interacted with the people to know their problems and grievances. As a result of this interaction from 8th October one police personnel is posted near St Joseph’s Educational Institute everyday when the school...
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...
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