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Mo Bangura
May 13, 2020
FROM FARM TO TABLE
Remember our gari? Well, here it is! Arriving at Mama Mayila's Cradle to the kids delight. Literally from farm to table. And gari also...
Mo Bangura
May 12, 2020
A PIECE OF THE PLANTAIN
Over in Bo, volunteer Mohammed has located some fine plantain saplings and an experienced arboriculturist keen to visit Hope Sakuma to...
Mo Bangura
May 6, 2020
SOMEDAY, SOMEWHERE
By the trampling of the Fulanese foot another fine batch of daub for Hope Sakuma's traditional hut is made mixing the long-horn cow dung...
Mo Bangura
May 1, 2020
A BIG PILE OF...
Let's call it Daub. Amabests face says it all as extremely dedicated volunteer Hassan ventures to the Wureh line to forage amoung the...
Mo Bangura
Apr 26, 2020
WATTLE AND DAUB A HAND WOVEN HOME
A hand woven home? Yup. This is basket weaving on a grand scale and in very traditional way. Hope Sakuma's second accomodation hut moves...
Mo Bangura
Apr 23, 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 19, 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 16, 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...