Abigail Fernandes (CAM Industrial Services), Roseline Fernandes (Lions Club Anjuna) and others
CAM Industrial Services recently donated dustbins to Lions Club of Anjuna as a part of their corporate social responsibility.
CAM has supported Lions Club of Anjuna by providing dustbins that will be placed in the required places at Anjuna, as their contribution towards ‘Clean Goa, Green Goa’.
Among present at the venue were Patrick Savio Almeida (Sarpanch, Anjuna Panchayat), Subash (Ward Member), Julian DSouza (Secretary, Lions Club Anjuna), Romeo De Souza (Treasurer, Lions Club Anjuna), Dr. Fenton De Souza (Vice President, Lions Club Anjuna), Abigail Fernandes, (COO, CAM Industrial Services), Roseline Fernandes (President, Lions Club Anjuna).
CAM has been providing portable toilets on hire and associated services across Goa at various music festivals, construction projects, film shootings, beaches, prestigious events including international expos and summits.
The Goa Government of Goa has also applauded CAM Industrial Services in the field of sanitation and waste management services. “I have always been committed to the beauty and greenery of Goa and we should have safe, clean and accessible sanitation system,” says Dr. Caitano Jose Fernandes, (PhD), Managing Partner, CAM Industrial Services.
Mukta Drishti Foundation gives Goa its first sanitary pad bank
Goa got its first sanitary pad bank on the occasion of Independence Day. A team has been formed at the work yard to guide the women of the village on menstruation and distribute sanitary pads to them free of cost.
Apart from addressing the difficulties faced by rural women, this initiative will also offer the rural women skills in yoga apart from organizing talks on menstrual hygiene.
“Empowerment and upliftment of women in rural areas is a very important aspect towards the progress of the country,” said Deputy Speaker and Canacona MLA Isidore Fernandes while inaugurating the sanitary pad bank.
Thanking Mukta Drishti Foundation for taking up the noble initiative in a remote area of Canacona, Fernandes urged the villagers to make the best use of the opportunities provided to them by the Foundation to bring about positive changes in their lives.
Mukta Drishti Foundation president Kishor Sarsolkar said the aim of the Foundation is to create a model village in Cotigao by providing the necessities to women and villagers in the field of education and awareness on different issues like health and hygiene.
Doctors from the area would also be involved in the project. Damodar Chari, the person behind bringing the project to Cotigao, writer and media person Devidas Gaonkar and Dr Shaba Gaonkar under whose guidance the project will be carried out, were felicitated during the inaugural programme.
MEET THE COUNCIL by GCCI Women’s Wing
The Council comprises of Deepali Naik (Women & Child Development Director), Inseyeh Ali (Forum for Innovation, Incubation, Research & Entrepreneurship), Advocate Priyanka Kamat Shetiye, CA/CS Swatee Rane and Pallavi Salgaocar (Chairperson, GCCI Women’s Wing).
The Help desk is a free service and gives all business related assistance and advice to women entrepreneurs and SHGs. The council holds meetings at regular intervals with women entrepreneurs and Self Help Groups to apprise them of the schemes available for them and resolve their queries. The meeting was held at Hotel Neelam Grand, Calangute with Self Help Groups from Calangute. The program was hosted and coordinated by Sonali Walke Nagvenkar, a GCCI Women’s Wing member, in association with ex-Sarpanch and social worker Sudesh Mayekar, and community resource persons Nita Kerkar and Nivedita Mathkar. Resource persons from DITC Geremina Araujo; industry inspector from EDC, Muriel Braganza; Dy. Manager from FDA Rajaram Patil, (Senior Food Safety Officer) and Madhav Kavlekar (Food Safety Officer); Women and Child Department, Reema Parseker (Mukhya Sevika, Bardez Block); and Rohit Meshram, Branch Manager SBI, Calangute were present at the meeting to explain various schemes and programs.
