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THE WINNOWERS RETURN
Our Ladies of Sanda make a welcome return to Hope Sakuma for winnowing duties. Expert winnowers one and all the Ladies winnow away the boli-land rice that's been harvested, stacked, dried, threshed and dried again making the first bags ready for the mill. 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
1 day ago
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' growing drying stacks. FOLLOW OUR JOURNEY! Follow our journey bringing hope to vulnerable children in Sierra Leone - please ❤ and share to
Mo Bangura
Oct 18


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


LET THE HARVEST BEGIN!
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
Mo Bangura
Oct 4


KIDS HAVE FUN DOWN ON THE FARM
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...
Mo Bangura
Aug 25


DANCE OFF DOWN ON THE FARM
As well as running riot and rings round poor uncle Mo, the kids find time to help out the Hope Sakuma team clearing, weeding and dancing!...
Mo Bangura
Aug 17


A-WEEDING WE SHALL GO!
It's the boys turn to step up and weed the Hope Sakuma rice - there's a lot of rice so a lot of weeding to be done - but it’s the Temne...
Mo Bangura
Jul 15


ALL THE TEMNE LADIES SING OUT
The Ladies step up and sing out to help on the Hope Sakuma farm spending two days weeding the Bangura brothers boliland rice, looking...
Mo Bangura
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