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BEAUTIFUL BONUSES FOR BEAUTIFUL BABIES | EMPOWERING MUMS IN SIERRA LEONE
Discover how celebrating baby bonuses in Sierra Leone boosts vaccination rates and supports young families at this crucial time.
Mo Bangura
Dec 1, 2025


BOUNTY FOR MOA WHARF
Learn about our support for vulnerable children living in Moa Wharf proud slum community Sierra Leone.
Mo Bangura
Nov 23, 2025


PAR-BOILING PAR EXCELLENCE
The Ladies take a break in winnowing for a week of par-boiling and celebrate with a joyful traditional song. An expert par-boiling masterclass follows as the Ladies first boil, then steam four drums of Hope Sakuma’s boli rice harvest before resting overnight to achieve the optimum swell of the grain. Only then do the Ladies artfully turn out the par-boiled rice onto freshly scrubbed tarpaulins to dry and once dried Foday bags the rice up ready for a trip to the mill. FOLLOW O
Mo Bangura
Nov 21, 2025


THRESHERS WILL THRESH, WINNOWERS WINNOW
The Hope Sakuma team enlist an army of helpers to process the boli rice the traditional way. While the boys thresh the rice over oil drums, the Ladies separate most of the chaff for seven more Ladies to winnow and someone bags the dried rice ready for parboiling. Everyone works on tarpaulins to minimize the risk of stones in the finished product making short work of the myriad stacks of drying rice. FOLLOW OUR JOURNEY! Follow our journey bringing hope to vulnerable children i
Mo Bangura
Nov 19, 2025


THE HARVEST CONTINUES WITH A SAKUMA WOY-A!
With an extended Sakuma-woy-a thirty farmers join us for three days to continue the boliland harvest. Three days work turns into four but what a productive four days as Hope Sakuma's thirty-three helpful helpers fan out and complete the first boli promising to return for the second. Meanwhile, the rice stacks continue to be dried and threshed ready for winnowing and a new drying area is cleared near the second boli, far from the farm, to make collection and threshing more eff
Mo Bangura
Nov 16, 2025


PERFECT PREFECTS | CELEBRATING EDUCATION IN SIERRA LEONE
Witness Destiny joining the serried ranks of Abierich Academys' prefectoral team in Sierra Leone
Mo Bangura
Nov 5, 2025


THE WINNOWERS RETURN
Our Ladies of Sanda make a welcome return to Hope Sakuma for winnowing duties, celbrating the first bushel of winnowed rice. And with 20 acres of boli rice to thresh they've got their work cut out over the coming weeks! Expert winnowers one and all the Ladies winnow away the boli-land rice that's been harvested, stacked, dried, threshed before drying again to make the first bags ready for parboiling and then the mill. FOLLOW OUR JOURNEY! Follow our journey bringing hope to vu
Mo Bangura
Nov 2, 2025


GIRLS EMPOWERMENT EMPOWERED
Learn about our support for vulnerable children living in interim care in Sierra Leone.
Mo Bangura
Nov 1, 2025


THRESHING MORNING, NOT NOON BUT NIGHT
While Farmers Thresh their Rice at Night All threshing on the tarp With lights and tunes to keep them sharp A hard nights work is done The dedicated Hope Samuma team have a mighty lot of rice to thresh so they're at it morning and night, very sensibly missing working in the noon day sun, doing their very best to make a dent in the farms' drying stacks growing higher and wider by the day! FOLLOW OUR JOURNEY! Follow our journey bringing hope to vulnerable children in Sierra Leo
Mo Bangura
Oct 18, 2025


HOW HIGH HOW WIDE THE STACKS
The Hope Sakuma harvest continues and the drying stacks grow! The first full week of the farms rice harvest finds not one but two drying stacks growing wider and higher each and every day as the dedicated farmers continue to cut and tie the boli rice. FOLLOW OUR JOURNEY! Follow our journey bringing hope to vulnerable children in Sierra Leone - please ❤ and share to raise awareness for Ebola’s Generation and children living with disabilities.
Mo Bangura
Oct 11, 2025





































































