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Rahul Basu

The Goa Foundation -- the strongest and longest lasting of Goa’s environmental groups, -- has functioned with donations from ordinary Goans now for its entire life of 30 plus years. Goans have ensured that the annual expenses of this small but effective organization are always available.However in the last couple of years, the assaults planned by corporate parties and governments on the ecology and well-being of the citizens in the State have simply proliferated. They have also become bigger in scale. Our annual expenses have certainly increased. We are also seeking to involve many more young lawyers in our public interest litigation in the Courts. The Foundation’s legal cases are lodged in the High Court at Panaji, the National Green Tribunal at Delhi and the Supreme Court of India. The Foundation’s outstanding work spanning three decades (most of it reported at www.goafoundation.org), will convince you that this is one organization worth blindly supporting in small or large ways. 
 The Goa Foundation’s annual expenses range between Rs.6 to Rs.9 lakh per year. This could be higher but for the fact that many people (especially lawyers) willingly fight the Foundation’s cases in the Courts pro bono (free of cost). Several activists assist the Foundation in its work (for example, verifying complaints, visiting problem sites) also free of cost. The Foundation works with few staff, that too, part-time. Nevertheless, office expenses have kept increasing steadily where they are beginning to pinch. Equipment (long depreciated) needs to be replaced. Travel costs of lawyers need to be taken care of. Young lawyers need to be supported in any case, especially if they are in training to be efficient environment lawyers. 
 The Foundation’s daily work output includes Right to Information requests with several government departments, appeals, final appeals, demand for justice letters, drafting of petitions for the High Court, appeals before the National Green Tribunal, petitions, appeals and counters in the Supreme Court. These are simply endless, but often get substantial relief. For example, a petition forced the Tamnar Transmission Line Project to fold up its illegal work at the proposed electricity substation at Sangod (outside Mollem). Recent work has included legal challenges to all the three infrastructure projects which threaten Mollem National Park and the Bhagwan Mahaveer Wildlife Sanctuary, and notification of a tiger reserve for Goa. Last year, in order to spread out its legal expertise among the Goan population, the organization organized its popular course on Public Interest Law, a 20 day course on all aspects of law and courts, with a strong environmental bias. .We continue to work extensively on environmental issues facing the people of Goa, including mining, Coastal Regulation Zone including turtle nesting sites, protected areas including wildlife sanctuaries and forests, protection of the Western Ghats in Goa, conservation of khazans and agricultural lands, air pollution (no to coal), etc.

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The Goa Foundation’s Operations Fund

The Goa Foundation -- the strongest and longest lasting of Goa’s environmental groups, -- was started by environmental activists in 1986. It has survived till now with a steady stream of donations from people who love Goa and who want Goa – both as an idea and as a place -- to survive for future generations. Thirty years later after its inception, the people in charge want to hand over the fighting organization to Gen Next. Handing over an organization without a Corpus Fund is not a good idea. Those taking over need to concentrate on fighting issues, not raising funds (though they will eventually do that as well). So we thought of a Survival Fund. It’s money you give us which will ensure the Foundation survives well into the next generation.The Goa Foundation’s outstanding work spanning three decades (most of it reported at www.goafoundation.org), will convince you that this is one organization worth blindly supporting in small or large ways.   
 For more than 30 years we never thought of a Survival (or Corpus) Fund. Now we think we need to get one going, to simply ensure that as the major environmental battles that threaten to engulf Goa unfold, the organization is strong enough to ensure an effective and sustained presence on behalf of the ordinary people of the State. You can choose whether the donation you want to make to the Goa Foundation will go to its annual operational requirements (this is a separate GiveIndia project) or to its permanent Corpus Fund. In the first instance, you give and support the expenses of the daily work of the Foundation. In the second instance, you contribute to ensuring the Goa Foundation does not close up after its founders leave. (The main ones in any case are already beyond 65 of age.) 
 Through our advocacy, public interest litigation and support for peoples' movements, we work in multiple areas. First of all, we work extensively on environmental issues in Goa, including mining, Coastal Regulation Zone including turtle nesting sites, protected areas including wildlife sanctuaries and forests, protection of the Western Ghats in Goa, conservation of khazans and agricultural lands, air pollution (no to coal), etc. We try to generate all pro-environment, pro-people research that is required for effective and sustained environmental battles that are engulfing the State in flames.We take a tough staff on pro-environment issues, tackling corporations, governments and bureaucrats without fear.Through our Goenchi Mati Movement (goenchimati.org), we try to ensure that the present generation of Goans (and their political leaders) think of the needs of the next generation and resources for their livelihood as well.

The Goa Foundation’s Survival Fund

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The Goa Foundation -- the strongest and longest lasting of Goa’s environmental groups, -- has functioned with donations from ordinary Goans now for its entire life of 30 plus years. Goans have ensured that the annual expenses of this small but effective organization are always available.However in the last couple of years, the assaults planned by corporate parties and governments on the ecology and well-being of the citizens in the State have simply proliferated. They have also become bigger in scale. Our annual expenses have certainly increased. We are also seeking to involve many more young lawyers in our public interest litigation in the Courts. The Foundation’s legal cases are lodged in the High Court at Panaji, the National Green Tribunal at Delhi and the Supreme Court of India. The Foundation’s outstanding work spanning three decades (most of it reported at www.goafoundation.org), will convince you that this is one organization worth blindly supporting in small or large ways. The Goa Foundation’s annual expenses range between Rs.6 to Rs.9 lakh per year. This could be higher but for the fact that many people (especially lawyers) willingly fight the Foundation’s cases in the Courts pro bono (free of cost). Several activists assist the Foundation in its work (for example, verifying complaints, visiting problem sites) also free of cost. The Foundation works with few staff, that too, part-time. Nevertheless, office expenses have kept increasing steadily where they are beginning to pinch. Equipment (long depreciated) needs to be replaced. Travel costs of lawyers need to be taken care of. Young lawyers need to be supported in any case, especially if they are in training to be efficient environment lawyers. The Foundation’s daily work output includes Right to Information requests with several government departments, appeals, final appeals, demand for justice letters, drafting of petitions for the High Court, appeals before the National Green Tribunal, petitions, appeals and counters in the Supreme Court. These are simply endless, but often get substantial relief. For example, a petition forced the Tamnar Transmission Line Project to fold up its illegal work at the proposed electricity substation at Sangod (outside Mollem). Recent work has included legal challenges to all the three infrastructure projects which threaten Mollem National Park and the Bhagwan Mahaveer Wildlife Sanctuary, and notification of a tiger reserve for Goa. Last year, in order to spread out its legal expertise among the Goan population, the organization organized its popular course on Public Interest Law, a 20 day course on all aspects of law and courts, with a strong environmental bias. .We continue to work extensively on environmental issues facing the people of Goa, including mining, Coastal Regulation Zone including turtle nesting sites, protected areas including wildlife sanctuaries and forests, protection of the Western Ghats in Goa, conservation of khazans and agricultural lands, air pollution (no to coal), etc.

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The Goa Foundation is the most well known of Goa’s environmental action groups. Founded in 1986 by a group of Goan environmentalists each fighting his or her own individual environmental battles, the organisation today commands the respect of judiciary, government and the general public for persisting with its environment agenda for more than three decades.The work of the Foundation spans different areas and fields, all related in some way or another with the conservation of Goa’s natural environment

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