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BACK TO SCHOOL AT HOME
This term, kids in Sierra Leone, like kids across the world, are being home-schooled during the coronavirus crisis. Junior and primary...
Mo Bangura
Apr 24, 2020


WEEK 8: DESTUMPING WITH A SMILE
Amabest strides purposefully forward leading our merry band of farmers back to farmer field school for more destumping, clearing Hope...
Mo Bangura
Apr 23, 2020


GOING SUMOKO IN SIERRA LEONE
Handily sitting in alphabetical order, our stable of players, Alex, Barney, Knox and Leo engage in a hotly contested bout of sumoko - an...
Mo Bangura
Apr 20, 2020


SO THAT'S HOW YOU MAKE GARI...
This fine pile of peeled cassava is going to trial some small-scale gari production using the traditional Bo method to keep the gari...
Mo Bangura
Apr 19, 2020


BLUEBELLS, COCKLESHELLS, WHO SKIPS IT BEST?
Misses Mya, Sierra and Sophie show us all an excellent way to keep fit while self-isolating with some super skipping action. Many...
Mo Bangura
Apr 18, 2020


PASTORAL INTERLUDE: OUR SECOND BUNDINGS
Hope Sakuma's farmer field school briefly resumes with some top-notch bund construction - the first step to connect our water source to...
Mo Bangura
Apr 16, 2020


SPELLING BEE ACTION
It's boys v girls in the kids grand coronavirus challenge, ten rounds of spelling bee action every week. A good start from Barney, Sid...
Mo Bangura
Apr 14, 2020


EASTER PARADE
This Easter join Jemima and co in a 30 second duck parade. Tentatively emerging from thier very own duck house after a brief quarantine...
Mo Bangura
Apr 12, 2020


ARTISAN BED-MAKING FIT FOR A QUEEN
Or a king, perhaps a princeling or, indeed, a princess! Hope Sakuma's first traditional hand-crafted bed destined for somewhere rather...
Mo Bangura
Apr 7, 2020


FIRST SUNDAY OF LOCKDOWN
The Hope kids invite you to join them at home for their Sunday service - there's singing and drumming as well as readings and plenty of...
Mo Bangura
Apr 5, 2020

















































































