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

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

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

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

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

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.

Five short months after the boli rice was sown Hope Sakuma’s harvest begins. Starting at the tail of the boliland round the island seven dedicated farmers cut the first ties transporting their precious cargo to the farms drying area where the traditional stacked drying pyramid is begun but just how high and how wide will the stack become? FOLLOW OUR JOURNEY! Follow our journey bringing hope to vulnerable children in Sierra Leone - please ❤ and share to raise awareness for Eb

The kids looking smart in their Hope Sakuma t-shirts learn they've got to head back home to Mama Mayila's Cradle only they really want to...