Chandor Club elects new Committee
Highly dedicated and most popular Basilio Fernandes better known as Basil, was in one voice elected as the new President of Chandor Club at the elections held on 27th November 2022. Incidentally of the 19 Managing Committee members the 10 office bearers along with four Trustees were elected unopposed and ballots were cast to elect the five Managing Committee members as there were nine in the fray. The new committee will manage the affairs of the Club for two years and will have to prepare for the Diamond Jubilee as the Club completes 60 years of its formation in that period. The General Body meeting of the Club began with all members observing one-minute silence in memory of the members who left for their heavenly abode since the last general body meeting held in...
Read MoreFree Eye Check Up
Ganv Bhavancho Ekvott organized a free eye check-up for the residents of Guirdolim and Chandor Cavorim at the Chandor Club premises on 12th November 2022 in which 252 villagers got their eyesight checked. This programme was organized in collaboration with Matoshree Seva Dham Arogya Seva Trust from Mumbai. While Alzira Pereira was the project manager for this programme, the following members of GBE slogged it out to make it a great success: Menino alias Minush Gomes, Esly Henriques, Maria Mascarenhas, Irene Anto, Francis eixoto, Sandeep Kalekar, Francis Coutinho and John Fernandes. John Douglas Coutinho was pillar of strength as he organized the cleaning and preparing the premises for the camp and supervised the whole project too. While Drs Aniket Rathod and Shiraj...
Read MoreVisiting the Aged
World Old Day which is observed on 16th October the world over, and on this day Ganv Bhavancho Ekvott (GBE) visited the home for the aged managed by the St Vincent de Paul Society which is housed at Chandor next to the St. Tiago Chapel. This visit was after a break necessitated by the prevailing pandemic due to which it was decided to protect the aged from any infection. During the visit, the inmates were entertained with video recordings of popular and ever favourite old Konkani songs including those sung by the nightingale of Goa Lorna, Goa’s own musical family namely Alfred Rose, his wife Rita Rose and their daughter Alria Rose. The mesmerising and enchanting songs from the old but still a favourite Konkani film Amchem Noxib were also shown. Besides, GBE’s...
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GBE initiates MLA Yuri Alemao felicitation
Leader of Opposition Yuri Alemao was felicitated by his constituents from Chandor-Cavorim and Guirdolim at a programme held on 2nd October which is observed as Gandhi Jayanti. The felicitation done by Ganv Bhavancho Ekvott (GBE) along with Guirdolim Club, Chandor Club, Chandor Seamen Association and Guirdolim-Chandor Veterans was held in the premises of Chandor Club. He was basically felicitated for remaining loyal to the Congress Party and not betraying the trust his voters had placed in him whiler ting for him as a Congress candidate or “in recognition of your integrity, loyalty and honouring the people’s mandate” as inscribed on the plaque presented to him. He was also felicitated on being recognized as the Leader of 0Opposition by Goa Speaker Ramesh...
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