by Regína Bjarnadóttir | May 16, 2022 | Uncategorized
On Wednesday, we graduated the fourth Cohort of our StartUP (formerly pre-acceleration) programme, and the largest one hitherto! Thirteen ambitious entrepreneurs graduated from our programme and are ready to develop their businesses even more and continue to grow. We...
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 | 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 Sigurður Sigurðsson | Dec 31, 2021 | Uncategorized
2021 was an eventful year for Aurora Foundation, full of activities from both ongoing projects and new ones. The office in Freetown is growing, and at the end of this year, we look bright-sided and excited towards a new year to come with its projects, milestones, and...
by Regína Bjarnadóttir | Aug 30, 2021 | Uncategorized
The Board of Aurora Foundation finally met in August, after only having TEAMS meetings for the past couple of years! The meeting lasted for two days, and the Board both discussed the development over the past two years and strategized for the next few years. The Board...