Mo Bangura
- May 6, 2022
GATHERING NUTS IN MAY
Here goes Samuel gathering Hope Sakumas' first harvest of nuts on a not-so-cold and frosty morning from cashew trees planted back in...
Mo Bangura
- Apr 29, 2022
OH MIGHTY CASSAVA!
Still yielding some mighty impressive looking cassava the Hope Sakuma team take a final harvest from the Sanda Magbolontor farm before...
Mo Bangura
- Apr 26, 2022
HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY MAMA SALONE
The kids from Mama Mayila's Cradle celebrating and wishing one and all a happy Independence Day and a very happy 61st birthday to Mama...
Mo Bangura
- Apr 22, 2022
CASSAVA FRESH FROM THE FARM
More farm to table action as the kids tuck into nutritious cassava leaf fresh from the farm. While drought-resistant cassava tubers...
Mo Bangura
- Apr 16, 2022
EASTER WITH THE MAHANAIM KIDS
The kids from Mama Mayila's Cradle head off laden with bounty for Mahanaim House. Miss Sophie, Destiny, Faith, Leo and Kye enjoy spending...
Mo Bangura
- Apr 14, 2022
GOOD FRIDAY FISH
Showing off a big blye of fish fresh from Tombo the kids from Mama Mayila's Cradle wish a Happy Good Friday and in advance, a Happy...
Mo Bangura
- Apr 13, 2022
BAGS IN THE AIR!
It's bags in the air time as the kids celebrate their last day of term! Working hard all through the spring term the kids are looking...
Mo Bangura
- Apr 1, 2022
CELEBRATING CHILDRENS BOOK DAY
Celebrating Children's Book Day the kids share their favourite books - eclectic tastes one and all. From Destiny and her Giving Tree to...
Mo Bangura
- Mar 26, 2022
UNCLE MO AND THE MAHANAIM KIDS
Uncle Mo spends the afternoon with the amazing Mahanaim kids brinign a kind dnation from Unlce Ian in the Uk. Madam Melrose Jnr welcomes...
Mo Bangura
- Mar 23, 2022
GARI-MAKING MASTERCLASS
Something of a gari-making masterclass as John shows Med the skills required to parch the fermented cassava flakes dry, shifting from...
Mo Bangura
- Mar 18, 2022
BEST MOTTO WINS THE DAY!
Track-side action from Rising Academy's second annual sports meet. First up the young athletes proudly parade together before the Big...
Mo Bangura
- Mar 16, 2022
WHISTLESTOP MOBILE GARI SERVICE
Following hot on the heels of our Mile Six endeavours a whistlestop tour of Hope Sakuma's mobile gari service in action with the first...
Mo Bangura
- Mar 14, 2022
SPECTACULAR SPORTS DAY
A sneak peak behind teh scenes at Sengbe Pieh REC's annual Sports Day finds a spectatular spectrum of colour and all the sporting action!...
Mo Bangura
- Mar 12, 2022
AUGUST'S BIG DAY OUT
August catches up with his life-long friend, Bas, enjoying a fun day out at World Hope International and Enabling Children annual beach...
Mo Bangura
- Mar 3, 2022
B.I.N.G.O. IS HIS NAME-O!
Brief bubbly deliberations before the kids settle on dogs' name (again) in an earily ear-wormish ditty - b.i.n.g.o. - b.i.n.g.o. - bingo...
Mo Bangura
- Feb 26, 2022
STUBBORN CALLS TIME!
Hot parching action with our resident gari-maker, Stubborn, calling time as the last of the cassava at Mile Six is harvested and turned...
Mo Bangura
- Feb 23, 2022
LATE-NIGHT LESSONS WITH LEO
Little tyrant, sorry, tyro teacher, Leo, gives a firm but fair lesson as Scout, Kye, Faith and Destiny learn all about phonics. Replete...
Mo Bangura
- Feb 20, 2022
THREE WEEK SWAMP CASSAVA PROJECT
Team Mile Six impress us so much we've decided to stay! Developing this acre plus swamp for early cassava in three weeks, maturing in...
Mo Bangura
- Feb 19, 2022
SATURDAY SCHOOL DANCE-OFF
The kids at Mama Mayilas' Cradle present a fine medley of dancing songs starting with 'we call your name you dance' so everyone takes a...
Mo Bangura
- Feb 16, 2022
PADDIES INTO PEPPER PLOTS
It's non-stop on the farm as hard-working Team Mabonkaneh finish turning Hope Sakumas' swamps into cassava heaps before turning their...
Mo Bangura
- Feb 13, 2022
A TALE OF TWO MATCHES
A pre-match pose, a flavour of the match and a lot a lot of noise. In one game a team victorious and the other, not so much… Hope Sakuma...
Mo Bangura
- Feb 12, 2022
FARM TO TABLE: HOPES' YUMMY YAMS
The kids send a great big thank you to Hope Sakuma sustainable farm sending their first-ever crop of chinese yams to Mama Mayila's...
Mo Bangura
- Feb 4, 2022
RESILIENT MAHANAIM KIDS
Smiles a-plenty as the marvellous Mahanaim kids send a great big thank you to from Uncle Ian all the way in the UK. Still residing in...
Mo Bangura
- Feb 1, 2022
SWAMP CASSAVA UNDERWAY
Team Mabonkaneh rotate in helping to turn Hope Sakuma's first swamp, harvested earlier this month, into high cassava heaps ready to plant...
Mo Bangura
- Jan 25, 2022
HARVESTING AND THRESHING ACTION
Back on the farm Hope Sakuma's new year rice harvest continues as threshing begins. The team harvest more nerica buttercup from the swamp...
Mo Bangura
- Jan 23, 2022
NEW CLOTHES FOR NEWBORNS
The kids are up to some good again! This time they're visiting new mums at the King Harman Road Maternal and Child Health Hospital and...
Mo Bangura
- Jan 22, 2022
LET THE GARI-PARCHING BEGIN!
The cassava flake's fermented and ready to go so it's time for Hope Team Mile Six to make some gari! Completing the final stages of...
Mo Bangura
- Jan 21, 2022
NEW TOGS FOR CHILDREN IN NEED
Lots of smiles and lots of love from the kids at Network 4 Children in Need as they receive gifts new outfits each, hand-picked and sent...
Mo Bangura
- Jan 19, 2022
THIS WAY GARI COMES
With the first of the mamouth cassava harvested, it's time for the first four stages of turning this nutrious tuber into much-prized...
Mo Bangura
- Jan 17, 2022
ON HAND TO HELP OUT
With Misses Sophie and Sierra, Leo and Barney on hand to help out delivering four boxes of new outfits for the kids at Initiatives for...
Mo Bangura
- Jan 16, 2022
NOW, THAT'S WHAT WE CALL CASSAVA!
Showing some truly best in class cassava meet Hope team Mile Six working with dedicated volunteers Ibrahim and Med last year to develop...
Mo Bangura
- Jan 15, 2022
NEW OUTFITS FOR MAHANAIM KIDS
New outfits for all the Mahanaim kids from Aunty Marenka and her Dutch foundation Heart 4 Humanity, as Uncle Williams delivers four boxes...
Mo Bangura
- Jan 9, 2022
BUTTERCUP IN JANUARY
A beautiful sight to behold buttercups in January! The Hope Sakuma team begin the first harvest of the new year. And as Samuel explains,...
Mo Bangura
- Jan 3, 2022
NEW YEAR'S WITH THE MAHANAIM KIDS
Knox, Alex and August, our three wise boys, are up to some new years' good visiting the Mahanaim kids and bearing new years’ gifts from...
Mo Bangura
- Jan 1, 2022
HAPPY NEW YEAR FROM SIERRA LEONE
Happy New Year and a bright and prosperous 2022 from all the kids at Hope to friends and family across the World and then a very...
Mo Bangura
- Dec 25, 2021
CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS FOR MOA WHARF KIDS
Santa's little helpers make sure that Katie and the Moa Wharf kids, living in one of the most vulnerable communities in the World, are...
Mo Bangura
- Dec 24, 2021
CHRISTMAS CAROLS FROM SIERRA LEONE
We want to wish you a merry Christmas from the bottom of our hearts is the kids Christmassy message to sponsors, families and friends in...
Mo Bangura
- Dec 23, 2021
HOPES' LAST HARVEST OF 2021
With more rice delivered to interim care centres and orphanages just in time for Christmas the Hope Sakuma team conclude the year with...
Mo Bangura
- Dec 22, 2021
CHRISTMAS COME EARLY IN SIERRA LEONE
Santa's little helpers visit four orphanages for vulnerable children in Sierra Leone with all the ingredients for a very special...
Mo Bangura
- Dec 12, 2021
SLATHERING HOPE SAKUMAS' HIVES
The season soon arrives to place Hope Sakuma's traditional hives and call the wild bees, so Ibrahim and team carefully mix cow dung from...
Mo Bangura
- Dec 7, 2021
BUTTERCUPS IN DECEMBER
With the first of Hope Sakuma's rice reaching Freetown and the hungry mouths of vulnerable kids the Hope team continue their rice...
Mo Bangura
- Dec 5, 2021
A TON OF RICE FOR MOA WHARF KIDS
Marking our sixth anniversary supporting Moa Wharfs' resilient slum community the Hope team deliver a ton of rice to vulnerable children...
Mo Bangura
- Dec 3, 2021
CELEBRATING WORLD DISABILITY DAY
Join us celebrating International Day of People with Disabilities with the Mahanaim kids receiving some party supplies with bumper bags...
Mo Bangura
- Nov 28, 2021
THE MEASURE OF OUR BOUNTY
The kids thank Hope Sakuma farmers sending one and a half tonnes of nutritious parboiled country rice providing food security for our...
Mo Bangura
- Nov 25, 2021
MO AND THE CASSAVA STICKS
Not content with extending the cassava farm to the boundaries and paddies the Hope Sakuma team set themselves a new target aiming to...
Mo Bangura
- Nov 21, 2021
BUTTERCUPS IN NOVEMBER
With the first of the years' rice on it's way to Freetown and Hopes interim care and kinship fostering programmes the Hope Sakuma team...
Mo Bangura
- Nov 19, 2021
GONE FISHIN'
Join Knox and Barney fishing with bembe - the traditional small nets of artisan fishermen - in our local river but will the fish prove to...
Mo Bangura
- Nov 12, 2021
OFF T'MILL AND FREETOWN BOUND
Skillfully sifting seed separating stones and chaff the Ladies resume winnowing duties with traditional sieves before parboiling in a...
Mo Bangura
- Nov 12, 2021
COUNTING OUR CHICKENS
A quick call, stand aside and it's time to count our chickens, all hatched, as they literally fly out of their coop! And a fine selection...
Mo Bangura
- Nov 6, 2021
KIDS OWN KRAIN-KRAIN
Miss Mya shows us the fine krain-krain, the kids first bounty from the community garden they dug over and planted back in September just...
