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