All posts by Jason Fernandes

15Apr/20

Introducing Mr SAPNESH SALGAONKAR our old faithful.

15th April, 2020 

Food Bank For The Poor , SANGOLDA, Goa , presents you a young Goan Man , Mr SAPNESH SALGAONKAR from Khorlim , Mapusa , looking to save his job and feed his parents, wife and 2 very small kids .

SAPNESH is a sales person and sells
Lite butter ,
Frozen Whipping cream non dairy ,
Cooking cream non dairy,
Chocolate Slab,
Chocolate cake premix.

His stocks reached GOA on Saturday and Monday was the lockdown last month .

Sapnesh has been with me right from 2014, when every afternoon he would be serving food at Mapusa bus stop to poor hungry men during his lunch break .

This was much before we started the food bank or street Providence Trust.

SAPNESH is the only 1 person who has consistently and sincerely worked in feeding the poor , picking the homeless street people up & taking then month after month to hospitals without demanding or asking for a salary.

Sapnesh is a tough man , both in his body and in his words and hands .

Always, he has and is , correcting me whenever i go wrong and ready to go that extra mile in helping any homeless person irrespective of the time .

Never will he talk behind my back or try to make trouble for me by instigating others but will always be the 1st to sort out misunderstanding as we have so many boys in the home with different thinking, different mind frame , etc.

Lots of people who joined me after SAPNESH tried to create a rift between SAPNESH and me but some how I had faith in SAPNESH and he never got enticed in that game.

Today, sad to say all those who tried to disturb SAPNESH working with me , have all disappeared inspite of being paid fantastic salaries which SAPNESH never felt bad about .

Today Sapnesh is my competitor in our professional careers as he works for a company which sells RICH LITE BUTTER where I work for a company which sells VIMAL LITE BUTTER .

But still our compassion for the poor , hungry , homeless street people is what binds us together.

Sapnesh has his own customers and I have my own customers for our sales .

We maintain a total professional approach in our careers and never do we doubt that either of us will cut into the other customer base .

Today SAPNESH asks you to support him in the products he sells and he Is ready to deliver to your homes, restaurants, bakeries etc , else it will get spoilt and the loss will be to much to bear as he had ordered the goods.

SAPNESH can be contacted on 9823795699 0r 8380077564.

Incase you are doing home baking then these are a few raw material you can purchase and try various dishes at home.

You can call 9823795699 Sapnesh for all your queries and he will answer and deliver you .

I am blessed,
1. that I liquidated all VIMAL stocks before the lockdown started.
2. My company Vimal Dairy paid my entire March Salary on 31.3.2020
3. Yesterday my company paid my bonus .
4. My company , Vimal Dairy , without doubt will pay my salary till the lockdown is on .

Remember serving the poor is good , but we need to take care financially of our families 1st especially when we have aged parents and young children .

In my last 7 years of AGAPE , not social service, I have seen , people closing down their business , leaving their jobs, abandoning their families and helping the poor and needy.

Its absolutely wrong.

Our families are 1st and then everything else.

I am glad I held my job otherwise it would have been very difficult to feed my 3 kids and wife.

Plesee support SAPNESH through this post .

God bless you
Donald Fernandes
8380097564 / 7020314848

15Apr/20

If I had 1 Crore rupees donation

If I had 1 CRORE RUPEES DONATION , I CAN FEED 10000 GOAN FAMILIES BASIC FOOD STUFF & MEDICINE FOR 1 MONTH .
( no negative comment and discussion, if you can , you too feed whoever I cant .)
God is showing the way .
11.4.2020 1pm IST
FOOD BANK for the poor Sangolda Goa has been feeding as usual across GOA daily .
We are now buying prepacked meals in these place @ rs 40 a meal.
  • Calangute 50 nos
  • Mapusa 25 nos
  • Porvorim 100 nos
  • Margao 150 nos
We are buying daily 100 sliced breads.
We get baked and distribute freely 1100 sliced cake everyday .
Also we get and distribute boiled eggs and boiled potatoes daily.
Besides all 100 plus inmates in our rehabilitation homes are fed 2 square meals. Ie 200 meals in our homes itself.
Everyday we get free 200 meals worth of food from GIVE FOR GOA whuch is alternatively fed in san Jose de areal & velim in south GOA.
So we are feeding daily approx 700 / 800 mourhs fresh cooked food.
Hope AVELINO DESA from DRAGS PANJIM , gets this message and calculates properly .
He had posted why I cant feed 100 people, a few days back on social media.
50 % of all food is fed to goans and rest to kids and migrants.
  • Vijay feeds in SALIGAO, arpora , calangute .
  • Caroline in assagao, tivim
  • Joaquim at mapusa bus stand
  • Sapnesh at KHORLIM & ansabhat
  • Elaine at Velim
  • Samarth at san jose de areal
  • Roy in margao
  • Sophie in margao
  • A, lady in porvorim
  • Cecilia in panjim
  • Goa police personnel in different parts of porvorim SDPO.
Numerous places daily we drop ration .
On coming Tuesday we are distributing 1000kgs rice and 1000 kgs atta through a group of local boys in south Goa towards relief to our goan poor families who are too afraid and backward to ask for help.
Mid next week in north GOA again these group of boys and girls will distribute 500 kgs rice and 500 atta again to our local goan families.
Street Prividence is asking your support with folded handed to :
  • Give us cooked meals
  • Give is dry ration
  • Sponsor a pre packed meal
  • Donate to our trust .
We offer you INCOME TAX EXEMPTION under SECTION 80G along with your pan card no .
No, we dont have LIVE videos to show that we are feeding but anyone can check with the places where we feed daily.
By 15.5.2020 we @ street PROVIDENCE are attempting to provide free basic ration and basic medication to 10000 goan poor families across entire Goa without creating LIVE VIDEOS all the time .
I sincerely thank CM OF GOA , for the effort he is putting in in helping all sections of society.
Thanks to Goa Police personnel, Doctors, Nurses , sanitation workers, multiple people who are feeding , benefactors, volunteers, who are working continuously to help all those in need .
Big thanks to BOTH COLLECTORS OF GOA for supporting STREET PROVIDENCE through numerous transport passes in both north and south GOA and enabling us to supply food, medication and pick and rehabilitate homeless street people.
This is the time to put aside all issues , EGOs, differences, politics, arguements etc .
Its the time to live HUMANITY .
Once again support STREET PROVIDENCE and be assured your every penny is going to the poorest of the poor in GOA priority now is OUR POOR LOCAL GOANS.
All queries, questions, thoughts , ( but not discussions ) through WhatsApp only on 8380097564.
I will 100 % reply.
God bless you all
Donald Fernandes
8380097564 / 7020314848