DreamDay Technology is a youth-led ICT firm dedicated to exploring and solving educational challenges through technology based solutions in Sierra Leone.
We are proud to announce that the DreamDay Technology Fellowship has been awarded 50 Canva Pro Licenses by Canva for Nonprofits to support our mission of empowering young changemakers, entrepreneurs, and nonprofit leaders in Sierra Leone.
As part of this incredible support, we’re excited to give out 15 FREE 1-Year Canva Pro Licenses to selected small businesses, nonprofit organizations, and social enterprises across the country.
🌟 Why This Matters
Thanks to Canva for Nonprofits, we now have the opportunity to support impact-driven organizations, changemakers, and entrepreneurs with powerful design tools that help them:
Communicate more clearly
Build stronger visual brands
Grow their reach through quality content
🎁 What You’ll Get with Canva Pro
With Canva Pro, recipients will enjoy:
Stunning social media graphic creation
Tools for posts, flyers, reports, presentations, and more
Magic tools like Background Remover, Magic Resize, and Content Planner
Real-time team collaboration
Brand Kit to maintain visual identity
Easy drag-and-drop features for non-designers
Access to thousands of premium templates, photos, and videos
Time-saving tools to boost brand visibility
Whether you’re a startup, nonprofit, social enterprise, or community group, Canva Pro helps you tell your story visually and grow your presence with ease.
🧠 About the DreamDay Technology Fellowship
The DreamDay Technology Fellowship is an initiative by DreamDay Technology Limited aimed at equipping youth, entrepreneurs, nonprofit leaders, and female-led businesses with digital skills, mentorship, and access to premium tools.
Through collaborations like this with Canva, our goal is to support purpose-driven individuals and organizations in building impactful brands and solving real-world problems.
🎨 Why This Matters Even More
In today’s digital world, visual communication is everything. Whether you’re promoting a cause, showcasing a product, or telling your story, strong visuals help you connect with your audience in powerful ways.
This Canva Pro license gives you the tools to elevate your brand, tell your story visually, and reach more people faster and smarter.
✅ Who Can Apply?
You are eligible if you are:
A Nonprofit organization or Social Enterprise
An active small business
Based in Sierra Leone
Focused on outreach, content creation, or branding
Lacking access to professional design tools
In need of better tools to improve your marketing and communications
Only 7% of African microenterprises currently use digital tools (Digital Transformation).
Digital technologies can drive a 2.8x increase in productivity, 6x higher sales, and nearly double the workforce size for microenterprises.
Barriers such as high costs, limited digital literacy, and gender disparities hinder adoption.
DreamDay Technology Limited, based in Sierra Leone, is empowering entrepreneurs and youth through cutting-edge tech solutions, including online platforms like DreamDay University and innovative programs like the DreamDay Technology Fellowship.
Closing the digital divide is critical for fostering inclusive growth and unlocking Africa’s full economic potential.
Africa’s entrepreneurial spirit is a dynamic force driving its economies forward, with microenterprises forming the backbone of economic activity across the continent. Yet, a vast well of potential remains untapped due to the limited adoption of digital technologies. A joint 2023 survey by the IFC and the World Bank across seven African countries revealed that only 7% of African microenterprises currently use digital tools. This stark figure underscores the need for a digital revolution to unlock the true potential of these businesses.
Digital technologies can do more than streamline operations—they can catalyze growth, enhance efficiency, and create jobs. This article dives into the benefits of digital adoption, explores the barriers holding microenterprises back, and outlines actionable strategies to bridge the digital divide.
The Digital Advantage: Transforming Businesses
The transformative power of digital adoption is undeniable. According to a survey involving 3,300 microenterprises, businesses that embraced digital tools reported striking results:
2.8x increase in productivity
6x higher sales
Nearly double the workforce size
For instance, microenterprises using accounting software achieved median monthly sales of $4,038, compared to just $315 for non-users. These figures highlight how digital technologies can revolutionize operations, foster innovation, and fuel economic growth.
Barriers to Digital Adoption: What’s Holding Back Progress?
Despite these benefits, significant barriers hinder the widespread adoption of digital tools. One striking finding from the survey is that 70.8% of microenterprise owners see no need for internet-enabled technologies. This highlights a critical gap in awareness about the potential of digital tools.
Other notable challenges include:
High cost of internet access (34.8%)
Lack of knowledge about digital tools (33.7%)
Limited availability of internet services (19.8%)
These barriers underscore the need for accessible infrastructure, affordable services, and widespread education to close the digital gap.
Actionable Strategies to Empower Microenterprises
To enable African microenterprises to embrace digital tools, stakeholders must take decisive action. Here’s how:
Make Technology Affordable: Subsidizing devices and data plans can significantly reduce financial barriers, enabling more entrepreneurs to invest in digital solutions.
Tailor Digital Skills Training: Practical, user-friendly training programs in local languages can empower business owners to confidently adopt and utilize technology.
Promote Digital Literacy: Sharing success stories and debunking myths about digitalization can encourage hesitant entrepreneurs to take the leap.
Develop User-Friendly Apps: Designing intuitive, relevant, and localized apps ensures that technology is accessible to all.
Closing the Gender Gap in Digital Adoption
A concerning gender disparity emerges in digital tool usage among microenterprises. The survey reveals that men are 3.3 times more likely to use computers and 2.4 times more likely to leverage the internet for supplier searches than women.
Empowering female entrepreneurs through targeted training, access to resources, and inclusive policies is critical to fostering a balanced digital economy. Bridging this gap will unlock untapped potential and drive inclusive growth across the continent.
DreamDay Technology Limited: Leading the Charge in Digital Transformation
At the forefront of Africa’s digital transformation is DreamDay Technology Limited, a Freetown-based company dedicated to empowering youth and entrepreneurs with innovative tech solutions since 2019. By addressing educational and employment gaps, DreamDay is playing a pivotal role in fostering socio-economic progress.
DreamDay Technology has trained over 1,000 individuals, ranging from students to entrepreneurs, equipping them with essential digital skills to thrive in today’s economy.
DreamDay Technology Fellowship
This flagship program supports 20 young entrepreneurs in Sierra Leone, providing digital training, mentorship, and a network for collaboration. By targeting non-profits, social enterprises, and female-owned businesses, the fellowship fosters innovation and competitiveness while creating a robust IT infrastructure for startups.
DreamDay Technology Podcast
The DreamDay Technology Podcast bridges the digital divide by sharing insights into how technology is revolutionizing businesses and communities. With episodes targeting entrepreneurs, small business owners, and tech enthusiasts, the podcast empowers listeners with tools and strategies to embrace digital innovation.
Building an Inclusive Digital Future
Digital transformation in Africa is no longer just an opportunity—it’s a necessity. By addressing barriers and promoting inclusivity, stakeholders can help shape a future where microenterprises thrive.
Investing in infrastructure, digital literacy, and gender-inclusive strategies will ensure these businesses are equipped to embrace the digital age. The result? Economic progress, job creation, and lasting social change across Africa.
Are you ready to be part of the solution?
Join the movement to bridge the digital divide and unlock Africa’s full potential. Together, we can create a future that is innovative, inclusive, and prosperous for all.
As part of our “Youth Education and Empowerment for Sustainable Development” initiative, we are educating and empowering young people by providing technology-based solutions.
They now have practical knowledge of creating accounting systems, documenting financial transactions, and providing basic management reports.
The built app is the digital tool we are utilizing for this course (a cloud-based, task, and payroll software for SMEs in Sierra Leone).
We would like to express our gratitude to Imran Kamara, the founder of Numbers and a business development representative for Built Financial Technologies in Sierra Leone, for teaching the participants.
DreamDay Technology in collaboration with Numbers, Built Financial Technologies and Aurora Foundation is offering a (5) day free masterclass for university students to enhance their skills in using digital tools to practice their profession.
The training will help participants to gain hands-on experience in setting up accounting systems, recording financial transactions, and providing basic management reports. The digital tool we are using for this training is the Built App (a cloud-based accounting, tax, and payroll software for SMEs in Sierra Leone)
Few spaces are available and only selected candidates will be contacted. Application Deadline: 15th June 2022
Training Period: 4th – 8th July 2022 Training Time: 09:00 – 12:00 GMT Venue: 186 Wilkinson Road, Opposite Lumley Police Station, Freetown
Contact us for more information Email: info@dreamdaytech-sl.com Tel: +232 76 111668
Kharifa Abdulai Kumara was part of the second cohort of Aurora Foundation’s pre-acceleration programme in 2020-2021 and has achieved remarkable milestones. Kharifa was so kind to sit down with us and narrate his experience of the programme and his journey since then, and we want to share his success story with you.
When he joined the programme he says he only had an idea of what he wanted to develop. But after finishing the programme he launched an e-learning and e-library database under the name of DreamDay Technology Limited. He is the founder and director, and it has been growing steadily, and now, he has a team of four people working for him. He says his main challenge was getting his ideas out in the market, which is something Aurora helped him a lot with, he recounts.
Kharifa registered DreamDay Technology Limited as a private company in 2020. He is currently working on creating a partnership with an HR consultancy for a recruitment system that will be an addition to the e-learning and e-library databases that DreamDay Technology Limited now possesses. Kharifa thanks the Aurora Foundation for the learning experience he had during the pre-acceleration programme, and he describes that having an idea is different from implementing, it is really not the same as he states, and he gives thanks to Aurora for the successes that he has achieved.
One of his most recent successes was earning the second prize in an ICT business plan competition held by the German company Für Sierra Leone (FSL), which operates in Sierra Leone, last December. The second prize meant that DreamDay Technology Limited received 2,000 USD and a notebook.
Kharifa strives to make the lives and experiences of university students and new graduates better by, for example, expanding their learning resources, increasing their employability, and assisting in the job search. We at Aurora take pride in working with ambitious and successful young people who want to make a social impact, like Kharifa, and we wish him all the best for a successful continuation!
Kharifa Abdulai Kumara, Founder and Director of DreamDay Technology
DDT Head Office, Fannah Street, Lower Allen Town, Freetown: Friday – Saturday, 18th – 19th February 2021 – DreamDay Technology Limited, a youth-led start-up ICT Company that specializes in web design, e-commerce, mobile apps development, digital advertising, web portals, graphics, logo design, and a host of other ICT services organized a two-day free WordPress training for students and entrepreneurs across Freetown.
DreamDay Technology is dedicated to researching various challenges in the educational sector and finding tech-based solutions to address them. It operates and manages the first free eLearning platform (DreamDay University) which supplements students’ in-class experience by allowing them to sign up for free online classes, an eLibrary (Salone Repository) which provides access to free educational resources (books, articles, dissertations, etc.), and Dream Job, a recruitment management system which links employees and employers; cutting down hiring time with powerful search filters and recommended matches.
Cross section of students and entrepreneurs at the training
The training begins with a call to other by the Public Relations and Communications Officer, Saidu Musa Sesay. He welcomed participants after a brief statement during which he urged them to make the best of the training stating that it might give them the next opportunity they never thought about. Participants were then asked to introduce themselves stating their names, profession, level of education, skills, and expectations.
The Director of DreamDay Technology Limited, Kharifa Abdulai Kumara, in his remarks said that the purpose of the training is to equip youths with web development skills which might enable them to be self-reliant in the midst of acute youth unemployment.
About DreamDay Technology Limited
DreamDay Technology Limited, a social enterprise is committed to youth empowerment by providing monthly free training on ICT, job preparedness, etc for youths who see the need to empower themselves with skills which might earn them a living and through which they could support their families. “We believe that education has the power to break through boundaries and transform lives and that education should be free.”
WordPress Meetup Sierra Leone is organized by DreamDay Technology to help Entrepreneurs and Individuals.
If you are a Blogger, Entrepreneur, or Student must have tried every platform to express yourself or your business fully and completely. And if you are in any of the categories above, you fall into either or one of the following:
You know you need a website, but just haven’t got the time to make that happen, or
You already have a website but you secretly know that it’s not what it should be.
The Sierra Leone WordPress Meetup will assist you in answering such concerns.
WordPress was first released in 2003 and has since grown to become the most popular website building tool (Content Management System), accounting for 39.5 percent of all websites and 62 percent of all websites built with content management systems (CMS).
If you’re trying very hard to figure out the best tool for developing your website for your business, or if you want to learn how to design websites as a freelancer or to help you get employment, here are a few things to keep you motivated:
Free of Cost:
Yes! Yes, you read that correctly. WordPress is a free platform. It is free to download, install on your website or a local server, and then do anything you want with it. Being the owner of a small company.
Easy to manage
Creating a new business website is now easier than you can imagine; you don’t need any programming skills, and if you can use Microsoft Word, you can use WordPress like a pro.
By downloading local servers and starting to develop for free, you may now use WordPress with or without internet connectivity. In less than 10 minutes, you’ll have your website up and running. You don’t have to start from scratch; instead, you can use pre-made templates to import into your website for free and begin customizing the content.
Customizable
One of the many reasons people prefer WordPress over others is because it offers Several adjustable options, including themes for changing the look of your website and plugins for adding new functionality.
And you don’t need to employ a technician or an expert to do it; you can update the information on your website and make it seem exactly as you want it to without paying a professional website developer.
You’ll be able to make video galleries and slide shows, as well as a variety of other types of designs.
Media Support and Mobile Friendly
It’s simple to create a responsive website design with WordPress, and it just takes a few clicks to turn your website into an application in minutes.
Conclusion
Working with WordPress is the finest move you can make to improve your business and personal skills.
You can do everything with WordPress, and I strongly suggest it to all beginners who want to establish a business website or start writing blog posts, as well as apply the expertise for employment.
DreamDay Technology is organizing a two-day free WordPress development lass for developers, entrepreneurs, and students to learn how to create websites locally and online using free and paid tools. Take advantage of the opportunity; there are just a few spaces available.
To receive free premium plugins and themes, attend both days and arrive on time.
Caritas National Office, Kingtom, Freetown: Wednesday, 22nd December 2021 – DreamDay Technology Limited, a youth-led start-up ICT Company that specializes in web design, e-commerce, mobile apps development, digital advertising, web portals, graphics, logo design, and a host of other ICT services took second place in the ICT Business Plan Competition organized by Für Sierra Leone.
DreamDay Technology is dedicated to researching various challenges in the educational sector and finding tech-based solutions to address them, with i) an eLearning component that supplements students’ in-class experience by allowing them to sign up for free online classes from lecturers and academia from the most well-known universities and colleges, ii) An eLibrary offering access to educational resources and iii) Dream Job is a recruitment management system, a site that links both candidates and recruiters, cutting down hiring time with powerful search filters and recommended matches.
The award ceremony kicked off with a welcome address and prayers led by Simeon Harding, Project Manager, FSL Business Plan Competition, 2021. He welcomed all and sundry. Before the announcement of the winner for the 2021 ICT Business Plan Competition, he encouraged all to be calm and celebrate and cheer with those who will emerge as winners, and continue to work hard to improve on the various aspects of their business plan. “You might just be the next winner,” he said.
Eighty-one ICT start-up companies applied and after the screening of the business plans summited, fourteen companies qualified for the second rounds of the competition. Following this, an interview was conducted on Wednesday, 15th December 2021. A week later, seven companies qualified for the final rounds of the competition and were invited to an awarding ceremony during which prizes were presented to the first, second, and third winners. Joseph Cole Jr., Managing Director of FSL presented letters of confirmation to the founders and CEOs of the three companies who emerged winners for the 2021 Business Plan Competition. The company which took third place, Dope Mall was awarded $ 2,250 plus a laptop computer ($ 1,750 funds + 1 notebook), second place winner, DreamDay Technology Limited was awarded $ 2,500 plus a laptop computer ($ 2,000 funds + 1 notebook), and first place winner, IFA (Kargoplus) was awarded $ 3,000 plus a laptop computer ($ 2,500 funds + 1 notebook).
Names of successful companies on display
Joachim Geitner, Chairman of the board based in Germany was the keynote speaker of the ceremony who joined via Skype call. In his keynote address to the seven finalists, he, first of all, congratulated the three successful companies and promised to work with them closely to ensure their companies become successful and produce other companies which will create employment for young people. He said further that besides these prizes, FSL will lay out a one-year support program for these companies beginning January 2022 to end in December 2022. He encouraged founders who made it to the final stage but didn’t emerge as one of the three winners to keep up hopes and believe that one day it will be their turn. He promised to meet with all seven companies when he comes to Sierra Leone early next year.
More than ever before, there is a huge skill gap between students’ qualifications and the requirement needed by hiring companies or employers. The Job Readiness Grooming is being organized by Leaders’ College, and the workshop is designed to get final year students, recent graduates and youth leaders ready to acquire jobs with all the relevant skills needed by employers.
The workshop will target and connects a maximum of 50 participants to a community of supportive peers at Leaders’ College and its partners for an ongoing career development programme, in the field of tech, leadership and entrepreneurship. It provides opportunities to actively practice skills like building an effective résumé/CV and preparing for a technical interview, entrepreneurship, leadership, effective communication,/public speaking and presentation skills, and other soft skills etc.
It will also include the launching of two online platforms by DreamDay Technology Limited that will provide a different yet digital approach to free education for students in Sierra Leone.
DreamDay Technology is a company that is dedicated to solving different challenges in the educational sector using ICT, as the country mostly relies on a traditional method of learning. Therefore, getting a quality education with access to educational materials is a challenge in Sierra Leone.
The online platforms includes;
A web-based online learning management system (DreamDay University)
An advanced online library (Salone Repository), launched in November of 2020.
The program is 100% free to attend and will run from 27th to 29th May 2021, starting at 09:30 am- 1:00 pm to 1 pm daily… The program is designed in such a way that participants will Learn-By-Doing (LBD) through completing assignments, presenting and participating in group works. Desktop computers will be available to all participants for use throughout the program at the Leaders’ College lab facility.
Upon successful completion of all requirement of training, participants will be issued a “Certificate of Training” by Leaders College a minimal fee payment will be required to receive hard copies of certificate and accreditations to prove that completion of training.
Contact: +232 79 587818 / +232 76 111668 Venue: Leader’s College Campus, 20 Alpha Terrace, K-Step, Calaba Town, Freetown, Sierra Leone. Partners: Life After University Graduates Forum, & Leaders’ College
Founder and Director, DreamDay Technology, Kharifa Abdulai Kumara, has told Concord Times that he will today officially launch the first ever electronic library in Sierra Leone.
He said his platform – ‘Salone Repository, is an e-library that will give people the opportunity to publish and collect learning materials including dissertations from Sierra Leone that can positively contribute to other students and institutions.
Speaking in an exclusive interview, Kharifa Abdulai Kumara,said they have developed an online platform that aims to solve solutions in the educational sector in the country.
He said they currently have two projects- DreamDay University, which is an electronic learning platform that allows university students and busy workers to attend lectures online.
He said their second project- Salone Repository’ is an online library allows people to do publications online so as to attract more readership.
He said the online library also allows people to access books, published dissertations from universities across Sierra Leone.
He observed that Sierra Leone is behind in terms of Information Technology (IT) in which the world is moving, noting that the emergence of COVID-19 has taught Sierra Leone a lesson that the country should go digital.
Kumara continued that their e-learning and online library will create significant impact, stating that it is difficult to find any dissertation from Sierra Leone online, even though they are valid with a potential to solve problems for other students and institutions.
He called on the government and other organizations to come on board and support his initiative for the benefit of the country.
He said the platform is too light and one doesn’t need to spend much mega bite to access and download from their website.
According to him, they have written to mobile companies operating in the country and government ministries so that they could partner, but that they were yet to receiving any reply from those companies.
He said they are officially launching the online library which will officially be opened to the public and that anybody who has material can share it on the platform.
