It is a hard fact that
due to our employment in Kuwait we made lot of strides in life though we worked
hard facing hard life in Kuwait. Even by
working in Goa we would survive well but would never be able to achieve
financially and socially what we most of us has achieved by working in Goa. It
is people like me coming from poor background that benefited more from our
employment in Kuwait and overwhelming majority of Goans working in Kuwait are
from this segment. Rich people do not want to go to Kuwait for employment, it
is only people from our category for this reason we worked there inspite of
undergoing harassment and humiliation.
We were not receiving
Heavenly Mannas in Kuwait, we were struggling day and night to meet our
ends. Yet we are grateful to Kuwait
because Kuwait gave us financial stability and social identity. It is by
working in Kuwait that we built nice bungalows, gave good education to our
children and elevated our social
standing. Would it be possible for us to
attain this level without working in Kuwait? Never. For this reason we are
grateful to Kuwait because what our society and our government could not
provide us finally Kuwait provided us.
Thank You Kuwait. Some of us got girls to marry only because of our employment in Kuwait.
With this gratitude
in mind we supported Kuwait’s liberation movement 25 years back when
Kuwait was invaded by Iraq on 2.8.90, however, to our regret overwhelming majority of Kuwait evacuees
failed to participate in this movement.
What was surprising that on top of it they criticized the makers and
supporters of this movement as if they made a mistake. Again the same criticism when this year on 25th
Feb. we celebrated 25th anniversary of the liberation of
Kuwait. What would be the fate of many
of us if Kuwait was not liberated in 7 months only on 26th Feb.
1991? They would fall on the road. One
Ladru from Nagoa Bardez who was earlier working in the Bank in Kuwait and who
refused to support Kuwait finally started selling Pao-Baji in Anjuna Beach to
the tourists, after he returned to Goa from invaded Kuwait. At least he was doing something but many others were doing something illicit
to earn their daily bread while many more were living in misery.
Kuwait gave us
something beyond our imagination. The
Ladru from Nagoa was just an SSC and as such he was not fit enough to get even a
Peon’s job in the Bank in Goa but Kuwait gave him White Collar Job in the Bank. Like this, plenty of Ladrus came up in life
because of their employment in Kuwait but when Kuwait’s turn came to receive
support from us, all these Ladrus, sons and daughters of Ladrus and Pedrus refused to support Kuwait. But
when Kuwait was liberated these same Ladrus and Pedrus sprinted first to go to
Kuwait for employment. The Ladru from Nagoa left his “Handi” of Pao Baji at
Anjuna Beach only and ran to Kuwait to earn the revised value of the Dinar. But
this same Ladru had no conscience to support Kuwait during its critical
time.
Even now on 25th
February when Goa-Kuwait Solidarity Center organized a function in Panjim to
mark the 25th anniversary of the liberation of Kuwait, this same
illiterate and intellectually bankrupt Ladru not only abstained from joining
the 25t Feb. function out of gratitude for Kuwait but on top of it started
criticizing the organizers of this function.
Incidentally, the same rascal like a Pimp sent his wife to work in
Kuwait while he remained in Goa. This
type of Pimps we have plenty among Kuwait Goans who are fit only for talking
but not for introducing any input. “He dadle, apun nidtat ghora and apleam
bhailank dhaddtat bhaddeak Kuwaitak”, on top of it they refuse due respect to Kuwait.
A.Veronica Fernandes,
Candolim, Goa.
Tel: 7507394349.