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Happy New Year 2023

Annual General Meeting – 2022 Trustees Report for the Financial Year ended 31 December 2021 INTRODUCTION The Goan Welfare Society (GWS) was founded in March 1983, to provide limited assistance to the community living in the UK. When the original Trustees passed away, responsibility for the Charity was handed over to the...

Melissa Nazareth

Melissa Nazareth, mother of a 7 year old, a wife and a professional, has been diagnosed with Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML) a type of blood cancer, and needs to find a lifesaving stem donor.
Cardinal Filipe Neri Ferrao
Archbishop Filipe Neri Ferrao has been nominated to be made a Cardinal by Pope Francis on 27 August 2022. He has been Archbishop of Goa and Daman since 2003 and will be the first Archbishop to be elevated to the rank of a Cardinal. Archbishop Filipe Neri Ferrao was...
In conjunction with the GOAN CHAPLAINCY (London) April 2022 AN APPEAL TO HELP A FELLOW GOAN Dear friends I am appealing to your generosity, as we are trying to raise funds to help with the cost of repatriating Trifonio Cardozo, to his motherland, Goa. Trifonio, who hails from Merces, passed away from heart...

Contact Magazine Jan 2022

Contact Magazine Jan 2022
Annual General Meeting – 2021 Trustees Report for the Financial Year ended 31 December 2020 INTRODUCTION The Goan Welfare Society (GWS) was founded in March 1983, to provide limited assistance to the community living in the UK. The original Trustees passed away and responsibility for the Charity was handed over to the...
Dear Friends I am appealing to your generosity, as we are trying help Michelle Rodrigues raise funds to help her with the cost of college fees for further education. Michelle had to give up her previous employment as she suffers from a long-term health condition. She is attending a School of...

Nikita Monteiro Poems

A new book of poems by Nikita Monteiro written whilst she was marooned in Toronto following a working holiday there...
This is our second quarterly report and covers the period ended 30 June 2021.  Mercifully the death toll amongst the Goan community in the UK from the pandemic has slowed down considerably and this reduction is probably due to the successful Covid-19 vaccination programme. However, there have been a number...