Xchange Perspectives e.V. (XcP) joins multiple organisations across five West African countries to create 27 short films exploring the societal consequences of COVID-19, utilising the power of Media for Peace amidst a global crisis.

Xchange Perspectives e.V. (XcP) was once more back in West Africa, working with filmmakers from Sierra Leone, Ghana and Liberia, including the production of six Media for Peace films about issues of concern in all three countries.

Xchange Perspectives e.V. (XcP) supported filmmakers from Sierra Leone, Ghana and Liberia to produce four Media for Peace films about the situation of young people in their respective country.

On November 7, 2015, Sierra Leone was officially declared Ebola free. That seemed to suggest that the country could now move on, but the epidemic had left its mark everywhere: people’s faith in the health service and the authorities had been shaken; the virus had torn families and whole villages apart; friends became enemies, as fear of picking up the virus spread; suspicion was rife and ubiquitous, as was mourning, for the thousands who had succumbed to Ebola.