The kids have been learning some sobering lessons about predjudice. At first they didn't understand how some white people can hate black people just because of the color of their skin. But when they reflected on their own lives the kids began to understand the arbritray nature of predjudice. Everyone had a story to tell about being picked on or called names or chased and thrown stones at. Some because of a disablity, some because they were Ebola survivors, all, even the little ones, because they're orphans. And the kids really didn't like that someone might not get a job or get beaten up by a gang or killed by a policeman just because of the colour of their skin. And the big kids, who learne
Fruity Friday finds the kids tucking into their choice of pineappale and mango and it's usually both! The kids love that their sustainable farm, Hope Sakuma, is planting orchards of four varieiies of mango to extend the harvesting time. And the kids are even more excited that, as well as making sure vulnerable kids get enough fruit to boost nutrition, their farmers are going to peel and dry the fruit to preserve it for longer and reduce weight, volume and transport emmisions for export, adding real value to their harvest. But it doesn't stop there! The farmers want to biochar the fruit peelings to add to their bocashi fertilzer, knowing it will significantly boost the phosphorous content and
A super-confident three times table from little Miss Destiny all the way to 36 without missing a beat before moving on to some long and quite complicated words comfortably riding from accident by way of ambulance! Sid takes up the baton with a dreamy delivery of his three by threes before, without missing a beat, little Lady Faith boldly proclaims her A through Z rounded off by Scout, who, we can all agree, is indeed good! FOLLOW OUR JOURNEY! Follow our journey bringing hope to vulnerable children in Sierra Leone - please ❤ and share to raise awareness for children with disabilities and Ebola’s Generation.
Esteemed Engineer Amabest takes us on a six minute stroll walking us through progress on developing Hope Sakuma's inland valley swamp (IVS) bundings and rice paddy plots. Starting at the head bund of the first plot last year - where long-time readers will recall Azolla reaching Sanda Magbolontor last July - Amabest takes us past our original six plots, now combined by the Makelekos All-Stars into three larger 2,000 square metre paddies, mirrored on the other side of the bund by three new plots, all to be levelled off so the paddies hold enough water for Tilapia fish, who'll help our ducks fertilze the rice. Then a walk along 100 metres or so of newly constructed bunding before coming to the
Good to see Madam Melrose back in the saddle having recuperated as Uncle Williams drops off vital supplies of rice and maggi, tomato paste, laundry soap, 200,000 le cash-money and even more vital supplies of biscuits and lollipops! All thanks to the generousity of Uncle Ian in the UK and Aunty Deanna and Uncle Bola in Australia. Uncle Williams also stops by the Polio Challenge Association to catch up with Ibrahim and the committee managing the old long-established polio camp at Grafton and to donate 50,000 le towards their running costs to help their work supporting vulnerable families with multiple special needs living in the Grafton camp. FOLLOW OUR JOURNEY! Follow our journey bringing hop
Every evening and every morning Aunty Isata (aka Mrs Amabest) lovingly prepares an Azolla and crushed corn feast for Jemima and her brood of seven and Lucky and her bakers dozen, harvesting Azolla from one of the nearby wells and gving the ducklings the best start to life. So sit back and enjoy a pleasant three minutes soaking in the sounds of Sanda Magbolontor village life watching Jemima and her six little ducklings chowing down on Aunty Isata's Azolla maize feast, two youngsters nudged out of the way by mum so everyone can tuck in. We can't wait to see them on Hope Sakuma's paddy plots fertilizing our rice! Aunty Isata's special azolla chow down recipe - two handfuls of crushed maize to t
This Join the kids celebrating Day of the African Child with traditional drumming courtesy of Barney and Knox and dancing with some really fine moves from Mercy, Leo, Sierra, Sophie, Mya and Alex in the individual freestyle. This day we commemorate the 1976 student uprising in Soweto, South Africa, where children died on the streets peacefully protesting. Yet, kids today - 44 years on from Soweto to the day - face the same systemic challenges of inequality and injustice as then finding echoes, every day in every nation around the world but in fragile nations states like Sierra Leone where civil liberties erode daily this is especially so when hundreds of children suffer hunger, malnutrition,
Looks like Miss Mya and Alex are on a field trip visiting nurseryman Usina, mandated by the other kids to choose the mix of fruit saplings for some new orchards at Hope Sakuma, their sustainable farm. And the kids choose Gambia coconuts, orange and butter pear (avocado), guava and sweetie-sap (sour-sop) and they can't resist some of each of the Guinea mango, Cherry mango and Labè mango. Coming along for the trp are Ibrahim and Med, two market gardeners from Potoh, neighbouring Hamilton, learning with Miss Mya how to plant the saplings from Usina before the Potohmen head to Sanda Magbolotor for rainy season to expand our vegetable production. After all their hard work the kids enjoy a slap-up
Join the Moa Wharf kids giving a jouyous and jumpy about thanks to Unlce Corneius for his kind donation enabling this rice delivery to some of the most marginalized kids in the world. This month's event at Moa Wharf - one of the most marginalized communities in Sierra Leone - sees Uncle Williams distribute rice to some of the families of the 57 children in our kinship fostering programme. These children all lost their mums and dads to the Ebola pandemic or live with a disability living with older siblings, grandmas and aunties in one of the most marginalized slum communities in Sierra Leone with regular food support and help with school costs from our Foundation. More than 2,000 citizens li
Meet Lucky, one of Uncle Vidal's fine ducks from Freetown and proud mum to a bakers dozen of 13 newborn ducklings! Not destined for farm to table but instead for a life waddling free on Hope Sakuma's rice paddies feasting on Azolla and fertilzing our rice along with the tilapia fish. Lucky's new chicks are soon to be joined by another 14 cousins as Henrietta sitting on a clutch of 14! In just nine months, Hope Sakuma's seven ducklings, kindly donated by our esteemed duck director Uncle Vidal, are growing to maturity producing twenty healthy chicks with seven of Jemima's chicks surviving. rice paddies. FOLLOW OUR JOURNEY! Please ❤ and share our sustainable farming journey empowering rural wom
Not the usual kids favourite game of "whoever dealt it..." but rather taskmaster, Alex, turning contestant in the Cradles' latest spelling bee - ram-packed with words with silent letters - silent but deadly, or not, in this particular bee, as the kids by and large, sail through from align to rhyme by way of some rhythm and a fascinate and other equally wonderful words - nice job kids! FOLLOW OUR JOURNEY! Follow our journey bringing hope to vulnerable children in Sierra Leone - please ❤ and share to raise awareness for children with disabilities and Ebola’s Generation.
