BBHAGSIA 1st Annual Meeting

“Let us go on with our work and talk a little to the comrades about some principles of our Party and of our struggle. . . . Let us consider, for example, a football team, which is made up of various individuals, eleven persons. Each person has his specific work to do when the football team is playing. The persons differ from each other: different temperaments; often different education, some cannot read or write, others are doctors or engineers; different religion, one might be Moslem, another Catholic, etc. They may even act differently on the political plane, none might be of one Party, another of another. One might be for the status quo, another might be for the opposition. That is ,persons different from each other, each one feeling different from the other, but in the same football team. And if this football team, when it comes to playing, does not succeed in achieving a unity of all its elements, it will not be a football team. Each one can preserve his personality, his ideas, his religion, his personal problems, even a little of his style of play, but they must all obey one thing: they must act together to score goals against any opponent with whom they are playing, that is act around this specific aim of scoring the maximum number of goals against the opponent. They have to form a unity. If they do not do this, there is no football team, there is nothing. This to show you a clear example of unity.”

- Amilcar Cabral, The Weapon of Theory

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This is a reminder that tonight at 6 PM CST is our 1st Annual Meeting. Siphiwe Baleka is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Topic: BBHAGSIA Mandatory Members Meeting

Time: Oct 14, 2020 06:00 PM Central Time (US and Canada)

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BBGHSIA Meeting Agenda

Date 14 Oct 2020

Time 6:00 pm CST

Type of Meeting: BBGHSIA Formal Business Meeting

Meeting Facilitator: President

Invitees: All BBGHSIA Members

I.      Call to order

a)      Binham Brassa Pledge

II.      Officers Roll Call

III.      Approval of minutes from last meeting

IV.      Committee Reports

a)      Membership Committee

b)      Language Preservation Committee

c)      Fundraising Committee

d)      Aid Committee

e)      History committee

V.      Executive Board Reports

a)      Treasures Report

b)      Secretaries Report

c)      Vice-Presidents Report

d)      President Reports

VI.      Open Issues

f)       Committee volunteers/chairs

g)      Fundraising projects

h)      Family narratives

i)       Certificates/ Directory

j)       Gambia Balanta Students Association

k)      Balanta Peoples Union

VII.      New business

a)       World Africa Day 2021

b)      Additional Fundraisers

a)      T-Shirts other BBGHSIA Apparel 

c)       2nd annual Balanta Day 2021

VIII.      Balanta Anthem

IX.      Formal Adjournment

X.      Virtual Fellowship