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During my visit to Portugal, I am honored to meet Vasco Gil Da
Costa and Filomena Almeida, a spectacular couple who own the cliff-top
restaurant Golfinho Azul (The Blue Dolphin) overlooking Sao Lourenco
beach. At the southernmost point of the beach, stands a stone fort atop
40-meters of vertical cliffs thrust directly upward millions of years
ago. The small stone fort Santa Suzana was the last defense against
Napoleon's army 200 years ago... After three invasion attempts the
people of Portugal resisted the French...
"I think they just wanted to come here to try our wines," says Vasco
Gil Da Costa with a chuckle. I laugh with my hosts just as a brilliant
dinner arrives into their living room, directly from the kitchen of
their restaurant, just 100-feet away. The room is filled with a
spectacular aroma seldom found anywhere in this world...
My visit this evening, is not just for dinner, however, it is to hear
more about how this amazing couple, who have all the things most
people in Western society only dream of... Beautiful home, family, and
restaurant sitting atop a cliff overlooking a breathtaking beach and
sea... Seek to help others and change the world...
I am here to learn more about their amazing efforts to help the people
of Guiné Bissau, Africa. In 2005, Filomena Almeida made her first trip
to Africa with the group Fundacao Goau XXIII, which helps associations
in Africa to educate, empower, and grow their communities. In the
beginning, her visits were helping build infrastructure in small
African communities, specializing in education.
The group Fundacao Goau XXIII has been helping grow communities for
nearly 23-years, with an emphasis in not just "doing for" villages and
people, but helping people "do for" themselves. While the group does
not have a manifesto proper, perhaps one could possibly be something
similar to "helping empower communities one project at a time." Fast
forward twenty-three years from Fundacao Goau XXIII's first visit to
Africa, the organization has grown a small school of 22 children to
more 3,000 in 2010. In addition, the group has aided an agricultural
cooperative bring farming knowledge, education, tradition, care, and
support to over 23,000 people in the Guiné Bissau region.
Six years, and nine visits after her first excursion, Filomena Almeida
now helps organize up to four visits each year, now specifically
focused on Kindergarten education. In the past six years, however, she
and the other members led a successful campaign in revitalizing a
struggling hospital serving a community of nearly 70,000. Today, the
hospital is run cleanly and efficiently, is cleansed of corruption,
fully stocked with medical supplies, has a 24-hour salaried staff, and
provides sufficiently adequate medical care to the entire community.
To date, the group has helped to institute one hospital, one
Kindergarten, a community radio station and a high school for the
people of Ondame, Guiné Bissau.
While a total number of lives saved, aided, and empowered may be
impossible to calculate, it's very likely the group has helped roughly
250,000 people, which in all reality, may be an insanely low
estimation.
Such a great feat of humanitarian triumph was not accomplished by
merely jumping into a community, dropping off short-term aide, and then
leaving as quickly as they came...
Rather, the organization Fundacao Goau XXIII understands building a
community begins one-step at a time, and cannot be furthered until that
very community is fully energized to educate, support, and empower
itself. Only then, can the focus be shifted to another community.
While the group's help may seem slow my most Western-world standards,
the amazing fact remains, all of aforementioned good was accomplished
by only nine core members within Fundacao Goau XXIII.
Think about it for a moment... Nine people have helped change the lives
and dreams of nearly a quarter million others...
As I sit in the dining
room of Filomena Almeida, listening to her stories of aiding the
community in Guiné Bissau over the past six years, the plates have long
been cleared, and the fire crackles in the background against the howl
of a hard Portuguese ocean wind outside... In the warm glow of the
evening, Filomena is humbly fiddling with her reading glasses as she
states with a smile, "One members says, 'We pick up a child who is
barely learning to walk, and we let go of him when he is strong and
independent.'"
"It was not only me," she says, "we, the people, who come with our
group, the people who support us, the people who believe in us, but
have never been with us, are all responsible for what has happened..."
And I ask Filomena, "Are you saying it took a community to help rebuild
a community?"
"Yea," she pauses for a moment, "otherwise, you cannot do it...nobody
can do it alone..."
"Virtue does not come from wealth, but...wealth, and every other good thing which men have...comes from virtue." - Socrates
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