On 1st and 15th November 2025, Route 360 Solutions Initiative, through the Building Climate Resilience in the Slums Project, trained 25 youth and women as recyclers in the Kroo Bay slum. During the training, they were equipped and supported with the right tools and resources to recycle single-use plastic waste into paving blocks. The first […]
On 4th December 2025, three Route 360 Solutions Initiative members graduated from Fourah Bay College, University. Alusine Hassan Bangura, our Chief Operating Officer, graduated with a Bachelor of Engineering (Hons) in Civil Engineering, while Amida Kamara (left), Building Climate Resilience in the Slums Project Assistant Coordinator, and Emma Patricia Turay (right), Building Climate Resilience in
Following their recent graduation from the Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone, Alusine Hassan Bangura, Emma Patricia Turay, and Amida Kamara were awarded certificates of achievement by the Route 360 team. They received their certificates on 20th December 2025. Education has been a valuable instrument in all that we do at Route 360 Solutions
On 30th August 2025, the Route 360 Solutions Initiative’s team officially kicked off the Building Climate Resilience in the Slums project in the Kroo Bay slum as part of the UNDP and Government of Italy Youth4Climate Program. On this day, over 80 youth and women were engaged in plastic pollution in slum communities. They learned
From 20th to 22nd August 2025, Route 360 Solutions Initiative (R360SI) Founder and CEO, Joseph Turay, in Yokohama, Japan, to attend the Ninth Tokyo International Conference on Africa Development (TICAD 9). Hosted by the Government of Japan and co-hosted by the United Nations, UNDP, World Bank, and African Union, TICAD 9 brings together a diverse
On 28th June, 2025, the Route 360 Solutions Initiative Team, through the Re-afforesting Freetown City (RFC) project, planted 800 trees in the Grafton, Leicester, Malama, and Regent communities. Community leaders, youths, older people, women, volunteers, children, media reps, bloggers, and partners came out in numbers to support and grace the tree-planting day, ensuring that
After successful engagements at the Regent and Grafton, on 15th March, the Route 360 Solutions Initiative’s (R360SI) team took the Re-afforesting Freetown City (RFC) Project community engagement on afforestation, reforestation, and deforestation to the Malama Community — the last targeted community for this year. Occurred at Gbabayilla, Phase 2, over 70 people, including the Local
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We are excited to share that our founder and CEO, Joseph Turay, has been awarded the African Development Bank-Japan African Dream Scholarship (AfDB-JADS), a prestigious scholarship from the African Development Bank and the Government of Japan. The AfDB-JADS will allow Joseph to pursue a master’s program at the Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University (APU) in Japan.
On March 24th, our team concludes the Re-afforesting Freetown City (RFC) project community engagement at the Leicester community. Over 50 youths, including women, from different parts of the community participated in the engagement. RFC Project Assistant, Mohamed K. Conteh, with support from our COO, Alusine Hassan Bangura, Project Coordinator, Elijah Edwin, and Project Educator, Salleiu
Route 360 Solutions Initiative is excited to partner with Patriots Against Corruption Sierra Leone (PAC-SL) to implement the Re-afforesting Freetown City (RFC) project. PAC-SL is an NGO empowering young leaders to promote development in Sierra Leone while at the same time reducing corruption. Through this partnership, PAC-SL will be engaging RFC project communities’ members to
