By Banker White | Executive Director
We Have Alot to Be Thankful For: On Saturday, November 7th 2015, Sierra Leone was declared Ebola free. After 42 days with no new cases, the epidemic is finally under control! But there’s still critical work to do to help families, communities and the country rebuild.
Join us on #GivingTuesday, December 1st: As many of you know, our non-profit WeOwnTV, founded a media center in Freetown Sierra Leone in 2009 and has been supporting a talented collective of Sierra Leonean filmmakers ever since. Thanks to generous support we’ve recently received, we’ve signed a two-year lease on an amazing new space for the WeOwnTV, Freetown Media Center. Our non-profit is putting all of our fundraising efforts on GivingTuesday towards turning that space into the best equipped locally-owned-and-run production facility in the country.
Giving Tuesday is a global day of giving, dedicated to supporting amazing causes. Next Tuesday, WeOwnTV will join charities, families, businesses, community centers, and students around the world for one common purpose: to celebrate generosity. Our goal by December 1st is to raise enough funds to outfit two new editing suites at the Media Center, add a new 5k Honda generator with proper line conditioners and connect us to a newly available high-speed Internet. We have already raised $20,000 of our $35,000 goal and are looking to raise our funding gap of $15,000. AND our project has been selected to receive matching funds up to $1000 per donor!!!
Why support the Media Center?
The WeOwnTV Freetown Media center did an outstanding job creating grassroots media to spread lifesaving information during the Ebola crisis.
Additionally, the team worked tirelessly as journalists, capturing the unfolding events around them and adding a much-needed African perspective to how history is being written, recorded and understood.
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With Gratitude,
Banker White, Anna Fitch, Arthur Pratt, Lansana 'Barmmy Boy' Mansaray
& The entire WeOwnTV Family
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