Innovation SL- Freetown Pitch Night, for the second year organized the Orange Social Venture Prize Sierra Leone. What is the OSVP? The Orange Social Venture Prize in Africa and Middle-East aims at promoting Social Innovation for development, thanks to information and communication technologies. Having become a benchmark contest, the Orange Social Venture Prize in Africa […]
Sheku Kamara makes briquettes from organic waste. He solves the problem of deforestation by offering his briquette as a replacement for charcoal coal. Briquettes burns cleaner than charcoal and are also cheaper. This means energy is saved and families have less expenditure of cooking fuel. Briquettes are also fuel in the clean cooking space which […]
Dream to Destiny I have a dream! Definitely not Martin Luther king Jnr! but Nigel Hyde. Since 2003, together with his team has impacted Sierra Leone in various ways starting with the construction of the city of rest to the Saint George’s old people’s home. Still toiling on to fulfill his calling from God and […]
MOHAMED TAYYIB BAH Mr. Bah is known as a man that has great passion for trees. This vibrant and an energetic Sierra Leonean left this country 20 years ago and decided to return in 2017 and establish his own tree planting business. He has had a passion for tree planting since he was a boy. […]
The theme for June 6th’s pitch night was “Social Entrepreneurship”. With many social, cultural and environmental issues affecting Sierra Leone, this month’s night was about solving some of these pressing issues, through 4 inspiring social entrepreneurs; Sheku Kamara of Briquette Making Enterprise, Noellen Barber of Nianda Agriculture and Trading Company, Mohamed El Tayyib-Bah of Trees4Prosperity […]
Tayyib Bah has had a passion for planting since he was a schoolboy. He left this country and returned to find the city that he loved a concrete jungle. Further to that he has seen the effects of deforestation that has led to serious environmental degradation which includes the landslide. He has embarked on a […]
“Home Leone is the start of a movement that we believe can close Freetown’s slums in less than 25 years”. Come hear Nigel Hyde pitch on June 6th 2018 at 232. Doors open at 18:30. Home Leone is Social Entrepreneurship in Action! The need is urgent and significant. Tonight, one in five of Freetown’s residents […]
The theme for the Freetown Pitch Night June 6th event is “Social Entrepreneurship”. The World Economic Forum describes Social Entrepreneurship as “A term that captures a unique approach to economic and social problems, an approach that cuts across sectors and disciplines grounded in certain values and processes that are common to each social entrepreneur, independent […]
