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Solidariedade Guine-Bissau

by Mark Whistler 


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...

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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. meet Vasco Gil Da Costa and Filomena Almeida

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...

 

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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..."

 

Learn more about Solidariedade Guine-Bissau HERE...









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