Balanta Community in Guinea-Bissau

15/12/2024

04/10/2024

17/04/2024

Hundreds of years ago, the father of my father's father, A Balanta B'rassa from Guinea-Bissa,u was brought to the new world to pick cotton, to***co, farm rice and sugar for the economy of the western world. In his heart was a promise to return to his land or origin, for he knew of the value of the family, and of Ubuntu ( I AM because We are and because We are, I AM)

Today I received pics and videos from our solar streetlight project in the village of N'tchude in Guinea Bissau and I'm sharing them here.

His spirit has returned and the ancestors dance!

My sincere thank you to all who have helped with this solar streetlight project. The village will be lit up tonight, the sisters and brothers can attend night school when we get that started.

I have vision of distance learning centers and one of my Balanta sisters is doing Speed School in Sierra Leone so I'm exploring that as a project also in Guinea-Bissau. We are also initiating a cashew processing project so you can help make a difference with any of these projects at any time. No donation is too small.
https://www.rootsinguinea-bissau.org/projects

You will be amazed at what we can learn about ourselves by helping others. When you bring some, you get some - ASHE!

17/04/2024

Mario Ceesay being of service in N'tchude for the Roots in Guinea Bissau solar streetlight project!

25/08/2023

The Balanta farmers

24/08/2023

The balantas cultural dancing

23/08/2023

Today is Balanta Language and Culture lessons with Mario Ceesay. Topic today is agriculture and seasons of the year. Join us in the Zoom room. DM me for the link!

09/08/2023

Join Mario CeeSay for Balanta language and culture class on Wed 11am PST (2pm EST) Reply below for the Zoom link!