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The Route 360 team recently met with the staff of the Environment Protection Agency Sierra Leone (EPA-SL). Our team was received with open arms at the agency’s head office in Wilberforce Village, Freetown. In attendance from our team were our COO (Alusine Hassan Bangura), Community Outreach and Engagement Lead (Salliue Barba Kamara), Recycling Educator (Santigie […]

As plastic pollution increases in several slum communities in Sierra Leone, the BCRS project team, on 7th February 2026, sensitized locals in the Cockle Bay slum on plastic waste issues. Our goal was to let them know that plastic, if improperly managed post-use, can become a nuisance to humans, animals, society, and the environment, while

With 83 youth and women in the Kroo Bay slum equipped with plastic waste collection and recycling training between August and November 2025, the Route 360 Solutions Initiative’s team, on 17th January 2026, kicked off the Building Climate Resilience in the Slums project in the Cockle Bay slum. The project Recycling Educator 2, Michael Williams,

Route 360 Solutions Initiative won the Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University (APU) 2026 Hult Prize in Japan, organized on 11th January 2026 at the APU Beppu City campus. Represented by Joseph Turay and Gifty D. M. Aggor, Route 360 competes with 18 teams of students from APU. Route 360 successfully competed in different phases of the

Joseph Turay is one of the 1,000 students and graduates from across Africa selected out of a pool of 10,000 applicants to participate in the 2026 Jim Leech Mastercard Foundation Fellowship on Entrepreneurship at Queen’s University, Ontario, Canada. The 8-month program provides fellows with access to training resources, financial support, and mentors to improve their

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 informal settlement. The first training, led by our Recycling Educators, Michael Williams and Santigie Koroma, equipped 10 youth and women, who, in turn, trained 15

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

Route 360 Solutions Initiative recognized 23 youth and women in Kroo Bay with certificates for participating in the Building the Climate Resilience in the Slums project recycling training, which took place in November. The certificates were awarded by the Route 360 team and the Kroo Bay community’s Councilor on 20th December 2025. Each of the

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