The Second Sweet Salone Container Shipment from Freetown
This past weekend a container full of Sweet Salone goods was shipped out of Freetown port, the second container this year!
Annar Sweet Salone gámur sendur frá Freetown
Um nýliðna helgi var sendur gámur, fullur af Sweet Salone vörum, frá Freetown, annar gámur á árinu! Aurora teymið hefur undirbúið gáminn yfir nokkurn tíma og…
Christmas Market with Sweet Salone products in Freetown and Reykjavík
Over this past weekend Aurora Foundation held its annual Christmas market in Freetown with Sweet Salone products. All the products are made in Sierra Leone b…
New collaboration with The Green Giraffe!
We are very happy to announce that we have started collaborating with a new designer under our Sweet Salone project. The Green Giraffe is a project led by it…
SLADEA & Aurora sign five-year agreement to continue support for Lettie Stuart Pottery Centre
February 2019 centred around the official launch of the Lettie Stuart Pottery. Now, 2.5 years later, we are excited to announce that we have signed a five-ye…
Changes in Aurora team
Sadly we had to say goodbye to Makalay last week, our Sweet Salone Coordinator for the past 1,5 years. Since she set foot in our office, Makalay has been an…
Continued support of the Icelandic MFA towards a stronger Lettie Stuart Pottery Centre
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of Iceland continues to support the development of the Lettie Stuart Pottery Centre (LSP) and their work in Sierra Leon…
Collaboration with Save the Children Iceland
Barnaheill – Save the Children in Iceland and Aurora recently signed a collaboration agreement about producing hand-crafted bracelets under the Sweet Salone…
Sweet Salone pop-up market
Last Friday and Saturday we hosted our second (pop-up) market. After the success of our ‘get-ready-for-Christmas-market’ last November, we decided to host on…
Impact assessment for Sweet Salone project
Aurora just launched an overview of our Sweet Salone project’s impact over the past couple of years. The Sweet Salone project, connecting international desig…
Mat á áhrifum Sweet Salone
Aurora hefur nú gefið út yfirlit sem sýnir áhrif Sweet Salone verkefnisins undanfarin ár. Verkefnið, sem tengir saman erlenda hönnuði og sierra leónískt hand…
Busy weeks at the Lettie Stuart Pottery Center
We are very excited to announce that, besides Peter Korompai, also Guðbjörg Káradóttir arrived safe and well in Sierra Leone for another stay!