The Marc Bolan School of Music&Film - Sierra Leone

We continue to make incredible steps forward at The Marc Bolan School of Music and Film. Building on our vision of empowering our students to create change for the good through music and film our students have launched a district and nationwide campaign to drastically improve the terrible state of water sanitation, and its dire councesquences, in Sierra Leone.

Two of our students have put together a team to present their Water Sanitaion film documantary (made at The Marc Bolan School) to influential people around the Bombali District, where our school is situated, and beyond. Only 2% (2019 figures) of the country's population have access to clean running water, leaving millions exposed to dangerous sources such as pools, rivers and self-made wells. Our students have prepared a list of academics, doctors and nurses as well as councillors whom they have invited to participate in their presentations and join in the cause. They are visiting towns and villages and the keen and serious response of the population is clear to see. Below are some images of these participants, as well as the students. Included are images of our intrepid Keh Keh - overloaded but keen to spread the word, to promote  the campaign for clean water so vital to the health of the entire nation. 

Please continue to help us! We are providing tutorials and lessons in music and film and now important life skills for our students to create a better, longer and healtheir life for themselves and their compatriots. We are succeeding - our students are creating life-saving change!

Our architects and builders have been working very hard to build the foundations of our Marc Bolan School of Music and Film in Makeni. Over the last few weeks (January and February 2022) we have bought a great deal of materials, locally sourced, and made great progress with the first very important steps of laying the substantial foundations for our school. The images below testify to the sheer scale and ambition of how we are helping our community. Truck loads of sand, cement, steel reinforcements and bricks have been delivered and our community builders have mixed, measured and grafted to put all in place. It has been a very exciting time, and there has been constant communication between all involved. Our architect, Philip Mansaray, has overseen every step of the work aided by our directors Bai Koroma and Gloria Jones. As well as this significant development  some of our now-qualified students have been documenting the building process on camera and film - again, pictures below show how closely involved everyone in our school community is involved in the very real and wonderful work. 

Much has been achieved thanks to your very generous donations, but there is still a long way to go and every penny/cent you donate goes into the next stage of building and the payment of our staff. Please help us complete the building with whatever amount you can. It is very, very much appreciated.