Last week, we organised a ‘get-ready-for-Christmas-market’ in Freetown! For 2 days we transformed Aurora’s office to a marketplace where different goods were sold, all made by artisans we cooperate with!
With all sales made at the Christmas market, we donated 10% to the charity Uman Tok – a small NGO that produces and distributes reusable menstrual hygiene kits, and gives sexual, reproductive health education to combat sexual and gender-based violence & school dropouts.
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...
Last Thursday, we hosted our first Inspirational Tok, and wow - we are already excited for the next one! With two speakers that definitely accomplished what this event was all about - to inspire - and an engaged audience, it won't be easy to surpass the impressions...
For the third year in a row, Aurora has carried out an impact assessment on the impact of the Sweet Salone project on the Sierra Leonean artisans involved. In general, the impact assessment gives you a snapshot of the economic situation of the Sierra Leonean artisans....