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WAYout will soon be homeless, like our members. We can't let that happen. WAYout changes the lives of street and vulnerable youth through training and facilities in the arts. Empowering the excluded to re-engage. Over 5,000 young people worked with. In March 2021 we will need a new home.
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Situation
Sierra Leone has 65% youth unemployment and many live on the street. Street survival often means joining a gang or for women, sex work. Lack of free education makes finding a job even more difficult and leads to young people having no voice, confidence or belief in themselves. Young women, especially in the provinces, marry young and suffer domestic abuse. Young men on the streets or in gangs have nothing to lose and are open to organised crime and drug abuse. That's where we come in
Solution
Media, music and the arts can be engaged with even for someone with no literacy skills. Members learn skills free, they also learn codes of conduct and work ethics. Digital media and design are growth industries and we have trained young people who now work for broadcasters or are professional freelancers. We offer housing grants and have got 100 off the streets. Members make films about Human Rights which educates, encourages debate and gives confidence and acceptance back into community
