Mangaluru: Lotus and Globe travels donate smart classroom technology to Bengre Govt. School
Mangalore: Globe travels Mangalore which introduced Mangalore to the world of cruise world since 1980’s always helps the poor children to build their dreams. The Staff of Globe travels do chip in to educate the poor children every year. The Lotus DMC Cochin headed by Sanjeev Kumar had a dream to develop the Thota Bengre as a tourist destination. They contacted their counterpart Globe travels, Mangalore who willingly supported their dreams come true.
Result of this to bring the foreign nationals to the Thota Bengre to view the country ship yard, Beedie rolling and the visit to the Govt. Hry. Pry School. Lotus DMC and Globe travels, Mangalore chipped a huge amount of their little revenue to bring joy to the little children with putting up a smart class room costing Rs. Seven Lakhs with modern equipment which was inaugurated by the Capt. Sokratis Sklavos, of Costa Victoria cruise ship visited Mangalore. The cruise ship team along with the captain of the ship visited the school to inaugurate the smart class room and were thrilled at the good Samaritan deed of Lotus DMC and Globe travels who are their ground handling agents for years.
Inaugurating the smart class room Capt. Sklavos said that children should have good facilities to get educated and he stressed that the children are the future of any country. He congratulated Sanjeev Kumar of Lotus DMC and William D’ Souza of Globe travels saying, Bravo, Bravo expressing his happiness in Italian language. He asked the children to listen to their teachers and to respect them to build a beautiful future for them. In his inaugural address Capt. Sokratis Sklavos said, “Being myself a father of two beautiful young girls, I am truly blessed and overwhelmed to be among all these happy and beautiful children. While I was in the tourist bus on my way to this school, I asked the bus driver who are the good people in this scenic area, and he said, they are the villagers and children of Bengre. And I think he was right, by looking at all these people and children who have so much love and the spirit of hospitality and friendship in them. No doubt, the dream of having smart class room has come true for the teachers and students of this school. I am happy to be part of this inaugural ceremony, and will cherish this moment for the rest of my life”.
The Chief Guest Y.R. Belgal Traffic Manager of New Mangalore Port Trust thanked Sanjeev Kumar and specially William D’ Souza who was the reason to have cruise ships to Mangalore and wished the children best in their life. He said: Their example of donating their partial wealth to a needed cause should be followed by others. A person can earn lots of money and remain rich forever, but his life is useless if part of his wealth is not shared with others in need in the surrounding areas. Helping others should be our motto. And it was indeed nice of the Ship Captain in entertaining the children on a ship tour”.
The ship crew members entertained the school children with sing songs and a short play and taking the children to the ground and playing with them. The children of the school were thrilled at this and the teachers of the school were simply drum struck since this school had this type of interaction for the first time in the history of the school.
Delphine D’ Souza, Manager of Globe travels compared the programme and the school children sang the prayer song with their own sweet melodies voices. Rev. Sr. Agnes Frank proposed vote of thanks.
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Rickelton's ton in vain as SRH beat MI by 6 wickets
Mumbai (PTI): Ryan Rickelton's whirlwind unbeaten ton was overshadowed by Heinrich Klaasen's unbeaten 65 as Sunrisers Hyderabad defeated Mumbai Indians by six wickets in an IPL match here on Wednesday.
Chasing an imposing 244-run target, Travis Head (76 off 30) and Abhishek Sharma (45 off 24) shared 129 runs for the opening wicket to set the platform for SRH.
Klaasen (65 not out off 30 balls) then displayed his all-round hitting abilities to guide SRH home with the help of Nitish Kumar Reddy (21) and Salil Arora (30 not out off 10) in 18.4 overs.
Earlier, Rickelton's knock powered MI to 243 for five.
MI rode on a 93-run stand between Rickelton (123 not out off 55 balls) and Will Jacks (46 off 22) in 7.1 overs for the opening stand to power the side.
MI skipper Hardik Pandya scored a valuable 31 off 15 balls before being dismissed.
Praful Hinge (2/54), Eshan Malinga (1/29), Sakib Hasan (1/39) and Nitish Kumar Reddy (1/31) were the wicket-takers for SRH.
Brief Scores:
Mumbai Indian: 243 for 5 in 20 overs (Ryan Rickelton 123 not out; Praful Hinge 2/54).
Sunrisers Hyderabad: 249 for 4 in 18.4 overs (Travis Head 76, Heinrich Klaasen 65 not out; AM Ghazanfar 2/51).
