How can we encourage more teenagers to be like Kelvin Doe?

New airline flying from London to Freetown

Gambia Bird is now flying three days a week from London Gatwick to Freetown. Return fares start at £469. This is a very competitive price.

Another visit is being explored

We are looking to take a team to Freetown at Easter 2014.

Joseph Hall is keen to come with us to Sierra Leone on our next visit. I met him when he was performing in Nottingham earlier this year. He is an inspired dance teacher and committed to seeing young people develope their full potential. His school in Nottingham includes remedial work with pupils who have been excluded from school. I hope we will reach out to the community in the Kissy area to enable people to begin working together, enjoying and growing in hope and confidence and giving pleasure to others.

I have been inspired by the work of urban youth charity, XLP. They have grown an Arts Showcase programme that is focused on encouraging pupils, especially those who for various reasons struggle academically, to express themselves in their own unique way through dance, comedy, drama, rap and singing. This arts programme, whose primary focus is on ’showcase’ and not ’competition’, encourages these pupils and aims to raise their self-esteem, the sense of their own potential, and help them to set goals and work hard to achieve them. I hope we can see something established in Freetown.

Joseph became widely known in the United Kingdom when he reached the semi-finals of Britain's Got Talent 2013.