Siphiwe Baleka with Florentino Fernando Dias, Secretario de Estado da Juventude e Desportes (Secretary of Youth and Sports)
The government of Guinea Bissau will be launching its Decade of Return Initiative May 9-15 and June 7-15, 2021. Several members of the Balanta B'urassa History and Genealogy Society in America (BBHAGSIA) will be attending these events for the lost sons and daughters of Guinea Bissau who were taken in the criminal trans-Atlantic trade and enslavement of African Heritage People. BBHAGSIA President Siphiwe Baleka will also be representing Guinea Bissau in the summer Olympics in Tokyo and will remain in Guinea Bissau after May 15th to train for the Olympics.
The Guinea Bissau National Olympic Committee has no budget for the Olympics, so Siphiwe Baleka has to finance his entire Olympic Journey. The hotel cost for staying in Guinea Bissau to train from mid-May until the Olympics is 2,000,000 XOF (CFA Franc) or US $3,683.
BBHAGSIA is going to "feed three birds with one seed" by renovating this property to serve as BBHAGSIA Headquarters and Olympic Training Headquarters for the Guinea Bissau Swim Team training camp before the Olympics in Tokyo.
In this way, instead of paying money to the foreigners who own the hotels in Bissau, BBHAGSIA can benefit the local community with this development project which they can use to rent the guest house throughout the year. BBHAGSIA members will then have their own, comfortable, air-conditioned guest house with nice toilets and Wi-Fi whenever they wish to visit Guinea Bissau. This is the kind of development that we are bringing to the people of Guinea Bissau!
