WAYout is an innovati
ve, International, youth led charity with a clear goal to support conflict affected, young people and street youth, using the arts and digital media. WAYout promotes artistic freedom, education and empowerment.
STRUMMERVILLE SUPPORT WAYOUT . Strummerville are supporting WAYout to build a music studio in the new hub in Freetown. More info…
A word from patron Mark Thomas: “Why should someone on the streets not dream of being a musician or a playwright or a film maker? And more importantly, could they dream of this if the facilities were not available to them?”
The WAYout comedy benefit gig went down a storm and gave us the funding to open the WAYout Arts Centre or Hub. Mark Thomas, Mark Steel, John Hegley, Isy Suttie and Josie Long performed at the Bloomsbury theatre to a very appreciative audience’An excellent bill and an excellent cause’ – Sunday Times. ’A superb, cerebral line-up for this benefit supporting arts education in the developing world – Must See’ - The Independent
“Just because someone lives in a refugee camp does not mean they cease to be creative and artistic human beings. If anything it is the opposite.”
Documentaries and dramas made by WAYout users in Sierra Leone, reach audiences of over 35,000 people and have now been in several film festivals including February’s Human Rights Festival and next months Sierra Leone Film Festival. Films on health and human rights, music and culture. More than 600 young people, who previously felt themselves to be voiceless, have taken part in media training courses and now have the tools to be heard.
We are currently fundraising for THE HUB and STREET TO STREET
