by Suzanne Regterschot | Jun 9, 2021 | Pre-Accelerator programme
Over the past four weeks, we have facilitated eight sessions for the students of the Ideation Programme. In a nutshell, they got an introduction to entrepreneurship and used the design thinking process to identify a (social) problem and find a suitable solution. Even...
by Suzanne Regterschot | Jun 7, 2021 | Sweet Salone
Last Friday and Saturday we hosted our second (pop-up) market. After the success of our ‘get-ready-for-Christmas-market’ last November, we decided to host one more market before the rains would start. Both Humu and Foday from the Lettie Stuart Pottery Center joined us...
by Suzanne Regterschot | May 21, 2021 | Sweet Salone
Aurora just launched an overview of our Sweet Salone project’s impact over the past couple of years. The Sweet Salone project, connecting international designers and Sierra Leonean artisans, has been growing each year since the start back in 2017. Since 2019 we have...
by Suzanne Regterschot | Apr 30, 2021 | Pre-Accelerator programme
After reading many applications, having numerous interviews and discussing the start-ups with the board of Aurora, we’re very excited to announce the new start-ups that have joined us as of this week in our pre-accelerator programme! Start-up 1: HBB...
by Suzanne Regterschot | Apr 29, 2021 | Funded Projects and Donations, Uncategorized
This week we visited Susan’s Bay in Freetown to donate t-shirts to the children that have been affected by the terrible fire some weeks ago. Susan’s Bay, a seaside slum community in Freetown, is the home to almost 4,500 people, making it one of the largest informal...
