by Urður Ásta Eiríksdóttir | May 23, 2022 | Uncategorized
Aurora Foundation recently received funding from the Foreign Ministry of Iceland to start a new project named Empowerment of youth with training in information and computer technology and business management. But the Ministry provides grants to non-governmental...
by Urður Ásta Eiríksdóttir | May 17, 2022 | Uncategorized
On the fifth of May, a harvesting fashion show event was held by Fashion Industry Insiders in collaboration with the Sierra Leonean fashion design hub Izelia and Aurora Foundation. The efforts of the past few weeks were showcased at the Country Lodge Hotel in...
by Urður Ásta Eiríksdóttir | 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 Urður Ásta Eiríksdóttir | 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 Urður Ásta Eiríksdóttir | 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 Urður Ásta Eiríksdóttir | 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,...
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