Music played a huge role in rebuilding post-war Sierra Leone and ensuring recent elections have been peaceful and successful. Music gives a voice, a means of expression and many jobs to the disenfranchised - but studios and music courses are too expensive for many young people to access. The WAYout Sierra Leone Project will provide: - Scholarships for young people to access professional musical training courses and gain qualifications at Ballanta school. - Grants for the young people to access and record in professional studios - In-school music projects from volunteering professional musicians and teachers providing short courses to young people across the country. - Setting up an affordable, sustainable studio for young people to access, gain experience in and manage in the long-term - Support and advice into employment. The young people will benefit from the project creatively, socially and economically; creatively, providing an opportunity to produce music and explore their talents; socially, providing an opportunity to voice their opinions and feelings; and economically, providing them with job opportunities and security for their future. - £1000 will pay for 10 scholarships for young people to attend Ballanta music school (the only music school in Sierra Leone). - £600 will pay for 10 young people to get their track recorded in a professional studio. - £20,000 would provide projects to 2 schools across Sierra Leone - £140,000 would fully finance the full two-year social enterprise project, providing self-sustaining studio facilities and resources, training, staff and employment opportunities for Sierra Leonean people that will continue on after the initial two year set up period.