It’s exactly one year ago that the first song from USUSU was released! Artists from the UK, Iceland and Sierra Leone started their journey together in November 2018, when 17 of them met up in Sierra Leone during the Music Writing Week. This event was followed by the Freetown Music Festival in March 2019, and resulted in the album Volume #1 being released on the 6th of December 2019. Listen to the album on Spotify!
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....