Cohort 4 Graduation!

Cohort 4 Graduation!

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...
Aurora’s Founders in Town

Aurora’s Founders in Town

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...
Imran Kamara’s story

Imran Kamara’s story

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...
The story of Kharifa Abdulai Kumara

The story of Kharifa Abdulai Kumara

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,...
Aurora Board Meets in person finally!

Aurora Board Meets in person finally!

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...