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Sierra Leone government supports WAYout: WAYout is now a registered NGO in Sierra Leone, with the country's Ministry of Education and Youth providing a letter of support and approval, stating that WAYout is the only music and arts-based charity working in Sierra Leone. Ballanta Music Academy, Sierra Leone’s only music school, has also provided their letter of support, and will be working in partnership with us on the scholarship scheme.

The YumYum Project joins WAYout: The Yumyum Film Project is a unique and innovative project that has been working in East Sierra Leone for almost three years. It is both a documentary film about the street boys of Kenema and a project enabling these young people to change their lives.

Yumyum is 24, was a child soldier, has no idea how he lost his family, and has never been to school.
Yumyum has had a video diary camera for over 18 months. The Yumyum Project is not only documenting life on the streets and raising awareness of their situation through film but helping them change their lives, supporting the children into housing, education, and employment. Since the project started several of the boys now have a roof over their heads and are in school. Yumyum himself  is in literacy classes.

WAYout is proud to support the YumYum Project and its aims. For more information and to donate, go to the project website here.

25 G4 Apple Macs donated to the project: The great people at London Southbank University have very kindly donated 15 G4 Apple Macs to the WAYout project. These have now been shipped out to Sierra Leone to help set up music hubs and in-school music projects. Many many thanks to Gordon Kerr and the Faculty of Arts and Human Sciences for helping to organise this!!

If you or your organisation would like to DONATE funds or equipment to the WAYout project, please contact us.