The previous page showed one view of the situation in Sierra Leone today, this video portrays a more upbeat and positive outlook of the country and it's future, however it is one that plays more to how the country could and perhaps should be be rather than it is; a country still tortured and suffering from its recent past.

It fails to show the 40% of children under the age of five who die from Malaria, the grinding poverty in rural areas or in the slums of Freetown, nor the horrific emotional and mental scars inflicted on Sierra Leone children from years of war and enforced enlistment as child soldiers. It overlooks the fact that Sierra Leone is today one of the poorest, if not the poorest countries in the world, with literacy rates for girls hovering around 25%, and dependent on foreign aid to stop it becoming a failed state.

Yet this video is worth watching for all its faults, as this may be the Sierra Leone familiar to all in ten, twenty years time after the generation of children today become the decision makers of tomorrow and deliver on their own hopes and aspirations that have eluded older generations for so many decades.