Tyson Conteh and the Lady P Sisterhood need our help!
The Clubhouse Sierra Leone Club hosted a “A discussion with Tyson Conteh” Filmmaker at WeOwnTV, founder and director of Future View Media Center on February 21, 2021 where he engaged a room filled with young Sierra Leoneans in a discussion around his BBC Africa Eye documentary called “Lady P and Sex Work Sisterhood” filmed in Sierra Leone, West Africa. He shared with us why he was compelled to create this documentary. He talked bout the community of sex workers, introduced Lady P and the sex worker sisterhood that were featured in this documentary, the risk and the challenges of the lifestyle, his next steps since the airing of the documentary and how we as diasporans’ can support his initiative.
Watch Discussion with Tyson Conteh
The (CH) Sierra Leone Club wants to support Tyson in raising funds that would aid to help these women in rebuilding their lives, giving them alternative opportunities that would break the traumatic cycles – mentally, physically, emotionally and economically. There are currently over 1500 sex workers in Sierra Leone and numbers are growing rapid daily due to the desperation in the need for daily survival. Funds raised would also go towards revitalizing his media company that would allow him to continue to shed light on the plagues within our African boarders. It would also give him the opportunity to provide jobs for aspiring young Sierra Leonean filmmakers by providing training and mentorship.
Tyson quoted “Long before now, it was always established filmmakers from Europe, America, and sometimes from Asia come to Africa and tell the stories of the African people most times do injustice to those stories because they often don't have the time the stories need, more importantly they don't know the culture, tradition, and the society and having this knowledge is very important to tell certain people's stories if you are going to do justice to those stories, so I thought we as local filmmakers have to step up and to tell our stories by ourselves.”
Tyson’s goal is to save the lives of those that are viewed as castaways and often rejected. His desire is to share real stories of African people; those that are misrepresented and become a voice for the voiceless by changing the narrative through his lens for those who view these stories and invoke thought-provoking conversations and awareness of the disparities within Sierra Leone that will promote change.
Will you help us to help him in his plight to give voice to those waiting to be heard and transform the lives of those in Sierra Leone?
-(CH) Sierra Leone Club
The Clubhouse Sierra Leone Club hosted a “A discussion with Tyson Conteh” Filmmaker at WeOwnTV, founder and director of Future View Media Center on February 21, 2021 where he engaged a room filled with young Sierra Leoneans in a discussion around his BBC Africa Eye documentary called “Lady P and Sex Work Sisterhood” filmed in Sierra Leone, West Africa. He shared with us why he was compelled to create this documentary. He talked bout the community of sex workers, introduced Lady P and the sex worker sisterhood that were featured in this documentary, the risk and the challenges of the lifestyle, his next steps since the airing of the documentary and how we as diasporans’ can support his initiative.
Watch Discussion with Tyson Conteh
The (CH) Sierra Leone Club wants to support Tyson in raising funds that would aid to help these women in rebuilding their lives, giving them alternative opportunities that would break the traumatic cycles – mentally, physically, emotionally and economically. There are currently over 1500 sex workers in Sierra Leone and numbers are growing rapid daily due to the desperation in the need for daily survival. Funds raised would also go towards revitalizing his media company that would allow him to continue to shed light on the plagues within our African boarders. It would also give him the opportunity to provide jobs for aspiring young Sierra Leonean filmmakers by providing training and mentorship.
Tyson quoted “Long before now, it was always established filmmakers from Europe, America, and sometimes from Asia come to Africa and tell the stories of the African people most times do injustice to those stories because they often don't have the time the stories need, more importantly they don't know the culture, tradition, and the society and having this knowledge is very important to tell certain people's stories if you are going to do justice to those stories, so I thought we as local filmmakers have to step up and to tell our stories by ourselves.”
Tyson’s goal is to save the lives of those that are viewed as castaways and often rejected. His desire is to share real stories of African people; those that are misrepresented and become a voice for the voiceless by changing the narrative through his lens for those who view these stories and invoke thought-provoking conversations and awareness of the disparities within Sierra Leone that will promote change.
Will you help us to help him in his plight to give voice to those waiting to be heard and transform the lives of those in Sierra Leone?
-(CH) Sierra Leone Club