Thomas Saldanha elected as President of KWA Dubai

Thomas Saldanha and outgoing President Stany D`Souza

Thomas Saldanha, a young and dynamic youth leader has been elected as the new President of Kanajar Welfare Association, Emirates in an electoral meeting held on 22nd November 2002 where most of the members were present along with their families. Thomas Saldanha is one of the founder members of KWA parent organization, Kuwait and has earlier served both KWAK & KWAE as Gen. Secretary.

KWAE, which came into existence two years ago, is an association of Kanajar parishioners living in the UAE. Being a sub-unit of KWA worldwide established in Kuwait 3 years ago, the association in the emirate has spent two glorious years under the leadership of Mr. Stanley D'souza. Outgoing president in his speech expressed gratitude and thanked all the committee members for their wholehearted support during his term.


The meeting started at 11.45 am with a prayer followed by a welcome speech by the outgoing president. The Secretary read out last two years report detailing various activities held and a brief report on financial status including names of investors in Lourdes HealthCare project back home. The election for 6 positions namely President, Vice-President, General Secretary, Treasurer, Cultural Secretary and Public Relations together with 8 other committee members took place at noontime. Mr. Thomas Saldanha was unanimously elected as the new President of the association. The following members have been elected for other portfolios namely:

Vice-President - Mr. Frank Lobo,
General Secretary - Mrs. Vera Barboza,
Treasurer - Mrs. Juliet Barboza,
Cultural Secretary - Mr. Stanley D'souza,
Public Relations - Mr. J.B Saldanha.

The following committee members have been elected as Advisors cum committee members namely:
Mr. Louis Mendonca,
Mr. Aloysius D'souza,
Mr. E. Barboza.

Committee Members:
Mr. Prakash D'souza,
Mrs. Jessie D'souza,
Mrs. Veronica Alva,
Mr. Vijay Barboza,
Mr. Anil Lobo.

Newly elected President Mr. Thomas Saldanha assured the parishioners to lead the organization in a more constructive manner and to achieve its goals. He congratulated the newly elected committee members and requested their wholehearted support for the association.

At the very outset, Mr. Thomas Saldanha a resident of Dubai , a Communication Engineering graduate from Mangalore University, having spent nearly a decade in telecom industry (with M/s LM Ericsson), he excelled and emerged as a telecom professional by his participation in career based trainings in most of the European countries and USA and was delivering trainings in the Middle Eastern countries. He now works for Emirates Telecommunication Corpn. (Etisalat) as Trainer, specializing in Switching & Transmission.

At the end of the meeting, a delicious lunch was served at 2 pm and thus the meeting session came to an end.

Kanajar Welfare Association Emirates (Tel no: +9714 3971622, +97150 5944176)

Local News correspondent

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