Raj Francis Pereira is the founder of this Konkani Friends and his wife Mrs. Reshma Lobo is the motivating force in order to carry this task for the benefit of Mangalorean and Konkani speaking community.

This was a small effort to gather all our Konkani speaking people and share among one another some important information which would be beneficial to each one of us. Hence a group on the yahoo was started on December 28, 2004. Secondly to get to know more of our native people in UK . This desire and a fruitful objective was supported by a group of our friends whom we remain grateful to. Our special thanks to Mr. & Mrs. Sequeira of Warrington ( Joseph & Marina ), Mr. & Mrs. Pinto of Manchester ( Santos & Lainet), Mr. & Mrs. Rodrigus of Manchester ( Stany & Reena ) , Mr. & Mrs. Pinto of Birmingham ( Cyril & Diana ) & Mr. & Mrs. Lobo of Manchester ( Ronald & Diana ) for initiating this process and rendering all the back support and making this task a successful one. Every member has contributed for the development of this Konkani Friends either by introducing their friends, or by giving their valuable inputs for development or by contributing articles or some valuable information, jokes, songs, hymns, recipes etc. without which we would not have grown to this extent. We thank all our Members for their whole hearted support and do thank Mr. Ancy Paladka of Mumbai, Mrs. Mamtha D'souza of Dubai , Mr. Maurice D'mello of Canada, Mr. Jeevan D'silva of Bangalore & Mr. Ashok Cutino of Dublin for their valued added contributions to us.