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The kids from Mama Mayila’s Cradle aka the Secret Squirrels Hush Hush (SSHH) go under-cover on an environmental mission to blow the lid on the sand-mining despoiling our beautiful coast. The kids get some great footage from a perfect hidey-hole along what’s left of the pathway before heading down to the beach. Tipper-truck after tipper-truck comes to fill with sand near to Hamilton and along the coast at John Obey, hollowing out beach shelf and encouraging more coastal erosion and floods. It’s true sand-mining provides a few jobs for youths shovelling sand and jobs are scarce but it’s low paid work and sand-mining has such a detrimental effect on our unique coastal eco-system increasing the risk of flooding for our coastal communities surely these youths would be better employed preventing sand-mining and protecting our beautiful beaches.

And while sand-mining fuels Freetown’s booming construction industry the kids were shocked to learn that untreated sand, salty from sea water and the iron construction rods - running through the concrete made with the sand that supports our houses and underpins the many retaining walls along the Peninsular hillsides – they don’t really mix, the salt will corrode the construction rods over time and it can only be a matter of time before they rust through and the concrete crumbles.