Whenever
Goans went abroad in search of new jobs they first form their associations in
the name of Goa or Konkani, Gulf countries namely Kuwait, Bahrainm Saudi Arabia,
Sultanate of Oman and UAE are strictly speaking the countries fall in the Gulf countries
which are managed by Oil based economies and as such they are very rich because
Oil is very expensive commodity. Kuwait is one of the Oil rich countries in the
world where first time Oil was explored in 19thirties but extracted in mid
fifties after the end of the great and disastrous last World War II and when it
was commercialised and money started
flowing like water into the Coffers of these countries, there came a need of
employing of more manpower..
Seen ib the picture are KKK Members with Agacaim Sarpanch in the middle and
in the below indicated photo shows all the KKK Personnel from left Mario Rebello, Xavier Dias, A.Veronica Fernandes and Elvino Rodrigues .
In the picture above seen are KKK members also with Jose Salvador Fernandes 2nd from left.
Kuwait started hiring plenty of Goans who when their number was swelled,
Goans first time formed their first association called Goan Association at
Ahmadi, then came some more and in 1981 Kuwait Konknni Kendr was formed with
the initiative of few like minded Goans. During last so many years KKK organised
lot of activities and helped many
Konkani causes in Goa and now all its members are retired from Kuuwait,
whatever little fund of KKK remaining with it in Kuwait they brought it to Goa.
labourers doing their job
From this fund , KKK gave some
amount to repair the Monument of 7 Konkani Martyrs at Agacaim in the Church
Compound. The work for this project is
going on and on 30.07.21 KKK members in Goa saw the progress of the work where even the village Sarpanch
Ms Emmy joined them and thanked KKK for taking
up this project.
A.Veronica Fernandes.
