According to Sonia Siwa of the Paseo de Marianas Promoters Inc., there is no more time for fundraising activities to help the team come up with funds to defray airfare and other expenses.
“We will have to wait and see if they can join, but most probably if we join, only a few of them can go,” Siwa said.
She said she is hoping they can find ways to make it and join the annual festival in Japan.
The team members have been very busy practicing their dance steps for the Liberation Day parade on July 4, she added.
Siwa said the Saipan team has more members now — over 50 —after the teams from Gualo Rai and Tanapag joined the original group of 25 dancers from Koblerville.
Awaodori is a festival held during the Buddhist observance of O-bon, the time when the spirits of the dead are believed to return to their ancestral homes.
