What we're doing on the ground.
Workshops, programs, partnerships and stories from our community.
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Training young women to collect Sierra Leone's STEM language data
Today we began training the young women who will collect data for our open STEM dataset in Krio, Mende and Temne. We are doing this with Girls Connect Sierra Le…
Two days on AI and careers: our seminar at Imtech Hall
In December 2025 we ran a twoday seminar on how AI is transforming careers across all sectors, at Imtech Hall, 64 Azzolini Highway. Participants who attended re…
Launching an open STEM dataset in Krio, Mende and Temne
On 27 September 2026, our Sierra Leone national team kicked off a project we have been building toward for months: an open STEM learning dataset in Krio, Mende …
A Year After the Letter: Girls in STEM Club Opens at Dr. Kadi A. Sesay Girls Secondary School
In July 2025, we walked up to the gate of Dr. Kadi A. Sesay Girls Secondary School in Port Loko and delivered a letter. It proposed a STEM club pilot: a space w…
AI for Career Success: inside our Career Connect Forum with LEAD Sierra Leone
Thirty young people gathered in Makeni, Sierra Leone with one question in mind: how can artificial intelligence shape my future? They left with something more u…
RiseAfrica joins LEAD Sierra Leone's Career Connect Forum: AI for Career Success
RiseAfrica is glad to join LEAD Sierra Leone for the June edition of their Career Connect Forum, where our founder, Ibrahim Denis Fofanah, will facilitate a ses…
How AI is Changing Education in Africa
Introduction Imagine a student in a rural African village with limited access to teachers, libraries, and learning materials. Now imagine that same student havi…
Why African data belongs at the center of African STEM
The data a student learns on is never neutral. It quietly teaches them which problems matter, whose lives count, and what the world is assumed to look like. Whe…