It is an old Goan tradition to serve food for the poor. The underprivileged people all sit together and are served Goan food.
Thankfully, in the recent years there has been a decrease in the number of poor people. But that has not killed the villagers spirits to have a reason to cook and eat together as a community and invite any underprivileged and senior citizens for lunch.
Primarily, The food is very much Goan consisting of curry dishes, vegetables, meat, fish, and pickles.
Samrachi Kodi Samrachi Kodi is a goan curry made for special events such as weddings and funerals. It has a black shade. It consists of dried prawns also known as kismoor in Goa.
ChickPeas, (Chole) ChickPeas is used in a heavy vegetable dishes. There are many ways of cooking it . Personally I believe that having a single vegetable and making so many kinds of dishes out of it. Is the cooking creativity. How creative and artistic you can be while cooking .
Tendli Bhagi(Vegetable) Tendli – the ivy gourd is a tropical vine. Tendli has a crunchy feeling in your mouth with a hint of sour taste. Tendli is cooked with onion and tomatoes with a sprinkle of grated coconut.
Rice, is always there in Goan food 
Fish is never absent in Goan food. 
“GoadShem” is a goan sweet dish that can be had as a dessert or a snack. It is made of different dals and jaggery. Different regions of goa can have different ways of preparing it and hence varying taste of the Godshem across Goa. This dish is mainly found in houses during religious and festive events. Personally, GoadShem is my favorite dessert and I love the taste of it
The Island Divar is where I live, in 2018 , towards the end of December I went for Bhikarache Jevon as a local villager. Here are some pictures I took.
The seniors took the first serving’s as we settled down on the floor.
Members of the youth serve the senior citizens. 
This is how we ate our food. It was pleasant and fun. There was music played and there were also drinks for the elders.
#eating on the floor 
Music 
My Food
They not only help the poor but they also use sponsored money of the villagers to buy bags of rice grains for the poor people and the old age homes.
Rice Bags
This act of empathy is something that has made me wonder about easy and simple it is to help and secure a futuristic community.
If you want to know about the food we ate there and how to make it here are some links to the goan recipes :
https://www.goanfoodrecipes.com/2008/09/godshe-simple-goan-dessert.html
https://www.archanaskitchen.com/goan-tendli-bhaji-recipe
Storytellers
Hey, Lucius. This article amazing.
Julie kuriakose
Lucius enjoyed the article and the insight into Goan village traditions
Lucius De Almeida
Thank your for taking time to read the article! I will strive to post more of these kind of posts.