All I hear is screaming and it's mine, followed by a brittle plastic disc being thrown off a gate.
I can do a Zoom or Groupchat on Whatsapp and take you all for a stroll. Let me know.
Hello from São Tomé and Principe. Come see us at /r/saotome
We have enough left over to restock rice milk and sanitary items for the girls. We will be handing it out tomorrow. Thank you so much for your continued support. You have no idea how much of a lift and assistance it brings to the community.
We are buying books and pens and things and some balls. I got a little bit of my own way. Photographs will be incoming thank you all for your help and support. Here are some pictures I took on a drive down south. I don’t think I’d get into one of these boats.
I moved to one of the smallest countries in Africa, one of the least-visited countries in the world a few years back. I came to visit friends and fell hopelessly in love (with the people and country). So hey from São Tomé and Principe.
I do this so you don’t have to for the record. It’s amazing.
I live in a poor community on São Tomé, a small island off West Africa that was once a Portuguese slave colony.
A local kid ran up to me one afternoon holding three tatty Pokémon cards. He had no idea what they were, just that they seemed special. So I showed him r/pokemon, thousands of people sharing the same cards he was holding, and his face lit up. He wanted to show the internet his cards. With his mum's permission, we posted them.
The post was removed because of the amount of racism in the comments, so he never got to see the response. But before it came down, people had donated £250 to buy toys for the kids here.
Footballs, frisbees, dolls and the like, all being bought this week. The photos will be going up on r/SaoTome if you'd like to see where your kindness landed, and everything else we get up to in the community.
Thank you to everyone who donated, especially Carolin, Mary and Conor. He may never have seen the comments, but the kids here will be playing with what came out of them for a long time.
Muito obrigado,
Jack
Together you're going to be bringing sports to the street. We've done a lot for the mums and dads with food and roofs, bathrooms for those in need. Now, it's time for the kids to swarm me again as they did last time.
We're going to have around £250 to spend on toys frisbees dolls footballs and the like. Photos will be incoming. A special thanks to you three, but also to all of you who send the little messages of love and support, the pics you send with the signs up saying hi to sao tome. Every tiny contact you provide means so much to us all.
Muito obrigado,
Jack
I sent the link to the coffee shop, on chat to their facebook account - not posted on a public wall, and my account has been restricted from advertising for security reasons. I now have to do this stupid video selfie thing - and I'm certain they're about to ban my account.
UNESCO officially inscribed six roças (Água Izé, Diogo Vaz, Monte Café, São João, Sundy, and Belo Monte) as World Heritage on July 26, 2026, at its assembly in Busan. This is STP’s first ever entry on the list.
The roças were the colonial-era coffee and cocoa plantation estates that once covered almost the entire archipelago. Sundy on Príncipe is where Einstein’s theory of gravity was proven during the 1919 eclipse. The listing recognizes both their architectural and industrial significance and their history as sites of forced labour after the abolition of slavery.
Definitely worth a visit.
We have some monthly donators to go fund me so we just bought rice, milk, sanitary towels for the people in the community who may be having a few struggles. Love you all.
They say it’s pretty new and under 12,000 km. I’m not sure.
Was a suprise!