by admin | Mar 31, 2012 | Africa, Multiculturalism, Women, Writing
I was honoured to be invited by the African Community Forum Incorporated to attend and speak at an event on March 10th 2012 to celebrate International Women’s Day. I have written elsewhere about my links with East Africa. Briefly, I was born in Tabora Tanzania...
by admin | Apr 7, 2007 | Goa, Maternity, Migration, Women
DeSouza, R. (2007). Sifting out the sweetness: Migrant motherhood in New Zealand. In P. Liamputtong (Ed.), Reproduction, Childbearing and Motherhood: A Cross-Cultural Perspective (pp. 239-251). New York: Nova Science Publishers. Abstract Migration leads to...
by admin | Mar 11, 2007 | Goa, Mental health, Migration, Multiculturalism
Published in (2007) Asian Magazine, 4. I came across a wonderful definition of health by Jesse Williams in 1928 the other day in a book that I was reading. Williams defines health as being “the optimal condition of being that allows for the ultimate engagement...
by admin | Apr 30, 2006 | Faith, Goa, Maternity, Women
First published in Goanet Reader Sun, 30 Apr 2006 and also published in the Indian Catholic May 21,2006 On December 3 2005, Catholic Goans in Auckland, New Zealand celebrated the Feast of St Francis Xavier with a mass in Konkani, the first time such an event had been...