As the leading Co-working and Tech hub in Sierra Leone, Sensi Tech Hub provides innovative and stimulating community and tech solutions for individuals, businesses, and institutions, particularly those that focus on young people under the age of 35.
In Sierra Leone, young people under the age 35 account for 49% of the total country’s population. However, the unemployment rate for them has soared above 70% for the last decade. As Sensi Tech Hub Founder and Director Morris Marah says, “the hub is a highly collaborative and community-driven model. The open space in Freetown facilitates the mentoring and skills training of generations, exposing them to novel ideas needed to foster a more innovative technology and business community in Sierra Leone.”
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The main Sensi Tech Hub, located at Aberdeen in Freetown, connects entrepreneurs, creatives, innovators and technologies to help develop their ideas. Morris is well established within the development circles in the country as a pioneer in tech and through his Sensi entrepreneurship ventures including the plastic waste management project Leone’s Plastics (Le Plastics). He says: “The environment is something that I’m so passionate about, and I am willing to lay my life down on the line for, seeing us as a generation changing and doing the little we can to save our planet.
“Plastics for me is one of those situations where everywhere around me; I’m seeing it wasted and it’s affecting everything. It’s in the ocean. We are in a coastal place. The other day we were walking on the beach and there were plastics everywhere.
“We’re buying plastics from the communities here in Bomeh, where our factory lives, and we really are learning along the way to see how it works.
“We buy the plastic locally, and turn it into reusable plastic. Less waste on these dump sites will mean more positive impact.”
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