by Regína Bjarnadóttir | May 13, 2022 | Uncategorized
Ingibjörg Kristjánsdóttir and Ólafur Ólafsson, the founders of Aurora Foundation, came to Sierra Leone after a while due to the Covid pandemic and stayed in Freetown and its surroundings for a few days in May. They visited the Lettie Stuart Pottery Centre and our...
by Regína Bjarnadóttir | Apr 25, 2022 | Uncategorized
Imran Kamara took part in an Aurora Foundation ICT course held in partnership with what was then IDT labs a few years ago. He claims to have learned business skills from that training and gained tools to use. At the end of the course, he was given a laptop and stated...
by Regína Bjarnadóttir | Apr 7, 2022 | Sweet Salone
Last week was full of excitement! Rosa, Regina and Suzanne met up in The Netherlands to collect the Sweet Salone goods shipped from Sierra Leone to Culemborg in The Netherlands. At Fairplaza, a center for exhibitors with fair-trade goods, the team has worked all week...
by Regína Bjarnadóttir | Mar 25, 2022 | Uncategorized
Kharifa Abdulai Kumara was part of the second cohort of Aurora Foundation’s pre-acceleration programme in 2020-2021 and has achieved remarkable milestones. Kharifa was so kind to sit down with us and narrate his experience of the programme and his journey since then,...
by Regína Bjarnadóttir | Mar 17, 2022 | Pre-Accelerator programme
Last night the regular Freetown Pitch Night took place but this was the first time Aurora Foundation participated as an official partner with Innovation SL. The event was themed ‘Fempreneur’ and four women pitched their businesses. Piloya Grace Nollah...
