Posts Tagged ‘Sierra Leone’

Celebrate Sierra Leone’s 50th Year of Independence with WeOwnTV

This Wednesday, April 27, 2011, Sierra Leone will honor its 50th anniversary of independence, and the Bateman Group is requesting your support in helping us celebrate the occasion with our friends at WeOwnTV. A spinoff of the critically acclaimed documentary film, Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars, WeOwnTV provides film education and equipment for disenfranchised youth [...]

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Inaugural WeOwnTV Workshop Underway in Sierra Leone

WeOwnTV’s co-creators Banker White and Zach Niles have been hunkered down just outside of Freetown for nearly two weeks, instructing a group of young Sierra Leonean ex-combatants in film production, storytelling and social media – arming them with the skills and tools to share their powerful stories with the world. Here’s an update from the field…

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The Bateman Group, WeOwnTV, and Social Media Advocacy

At the Bateman Group we take our responsibility for being good corporate citizens seriously and our selection process for taking on pro bono work is pretty straightforward. We look for visionary organizations with dynamic founders who are providing creative solutions to real world problems, either locally, nationally or globally. While many of our pro bono [...]

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