Media Release
Pics: Alban D’Souza
Kuwait, Mar 21: Kuwait Canara Welfare Association (KCWA) held its general body meeting with a splendid ceremony on Friday March 20 at the Indian Community School, Amman Branch, Salmiya. The main agenda of the meeting was the election of the new executive committee for the period 2015 – 2017.
During the meeting, Albert Praveen Menezes was elected the president of KCWA.
The meeting commenced with the moderator Deepak Andrade welcoming KCWA's spiritual director Fr Noel D’Almeida and visiting priest Fr Sunil Dominic Lobo to the gathering followed by the opening prayer by Reema D’Souza. KCWA’s president Anil Fernandes then welcomed all the members who had gathered for the meeting. The minutes of KCWA’s last general body meeting which was held on February 20, 2015 was then presented by the general secretary Louis D’Costa.
A short presentation highlighting the achievements of KCWA and its committee members for the term 2013 – 2015 was given to the audience, which was well received and appreciated by all. Anil Fernandes also thanked the people who provide their continual support to KCWA especially for membership renewal.
Prashant Lloyd D’Souza, Salvadore D’Souza, Wilfred Lobo and Arun Pinto were honored with a bouquets by Fr Noel D’Almeida and KCWA’s sports committee for their wholehearted support and cooperation with regard to the recently concluded KCWA Cricket Cup 2015.
Fr Sunil Dominic Lobo was presented with a cheque of Rs 12,36,936 for Vimukti by the 2013 - 2015 committee members, which was generated during KCWA’s Kala Sanz 2015. Fr Lobo then spoke a few words and blessed KCWA to reach even greater heights with social service.
The election commission members Anil Fernandes, Ailine Cornelio and Marian Fernandes then began with the proceedings of electing the new committee, which is as below:
The audience applauded the newly-elected committee and Albert Praveen Menezes, KCWA’s president for the upcoming term thanked and sought everyone’s support and cooperation for a successful tenure.
Ailine Cornelio proposed the vote of thanks and expressed gratitude towards the school management for providing the hall, Walter Saldanha for the projector, Alban D’Souza for photography, Anand D’Souza for the sound system, Steevan Misquith for the PowerPoint presentation and to all those had gathered for coming in such large numbers. Kiran Gonsalves concluded the meeting with a prayer and sumptuous dinner was served by M&M Confectionary.