Laptops, tablets, cameras, Wi-Fi routers and more have been handed to pupils at Regent Square Primary School and Regent Square Municipal School the latest donation in a continental programme by Orange Foundation that has now reached 1,400 schools across 16 African countries.
Two primary schools in Freetown’s Regent Square community will begin the new school term with tools that most of their pupils have never had direct access to after the Orange Foundation donated digital school kits to both Regent Square Primary School and Regent Square Municipal School on Thursday.
The kits comprising laptops, iPads and tablets, headphones, speakers, Wi-Fi routers, digital cameras, and modems were presented at a ceremony attended by school authorities, Orange Sierra Leone leadership, and pupils whose enthusiasm for the equipment was matched only by their equally enthusiastic declarations of future ambition.
Speaking at the event, Orange Sierra Leone CEO Aicha Touré emphasised that the Digital School Kits initiative is designed to bridge the digital divide affecting millions of children across Africa who still lack access to digital learning tools and internet connectivity. She noted that the initiative has already reached 16 African countries, benefiting approximately 1,400 schools and more than 500,000 pupils across the continent.
Thursday’s donation is not Orange Foundation’s first intervention in Sierra Leone’s schools it is the latest chapter in a sustained commitment that has been building for years. Over the years, Orange Foundation has donated 39 digital school kits to Sierra Leonean schools, benefiting more than 39,000 pupils across the country. The programme also enables children to share stories about their culture, history, and local communities through digital platforms an element that gives the initiative a dimension beyond hardware.
Since 2014, the Orange Foundation Group has been committed to an ambitious approach to education through digital technology through its Digital Schools programme, through which it has donated more than 1,700 digital school kits with educational and pedagogical content to support several hundred primary and secondary schools in 16 countries.
The Regent Square donation places two more schools inside that network and places hundreds more children in front of screens they can use to learn, create, and compete with peers anywhere in the world.
Director of the Orange Foundation, Annie Wunnie Katta, engaged pupils in an interactive session about their future ambitions, with several children expressing dreams of becoming nurses, lawyers, and doctors. Katta stressed the importance of combining traditional education with digital literacy. “We understand that in the future, digital skills will be very important for children moving into tomorrow. That is why we are here today to donate digital school equipment that will give you the opportunity to explore, think, build, and be successful,” she said. She encouraged teachers to integrate the kits into daily teaching activities, urging them to move beyond traditional classroom methods.
Headmistress of Regent Square Municipal Primary School, Madam Fatmata Keister Kamara, accepted the donation with visible gratitude and offered a pledge in return that the equipment would be properly used for its intended purpose. In a country where donated school resources have not always reached the pupils they were meant to serve, that commitment carries weight.
Thursday’s ceremony sits within a broader pattern of Orange Foundation activity in Sierra Leone that has accelerated in 2026. In February, the Foundation certified 70 young women as digital professionals under its Women’s Digital Centre programme in partnership with the National Youth Commission the fifth cohort of a six-month training initiative that has now trained more than 700 women across Freetown, Bo, and Kenema since 2021, with over 600 graduates already transitioning into the workforce.
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In March, the Foundation launched an Orange Digital Center Club at Every Nation College in Bo, extending its infrastructure footprint beyond the capital. And this week, it also announced the Threads of Hope programme a digital and creative skills initiative targeting 400 young people and women across the country.
The picture that emerges is of an institution moving with intent not making one-off donations but building a layered digital education infrastructure that reaches from early childhood development schools in Pujehun to primary classrooms in Regent Square to women’s training centres in Kenema.
CEO Aicha Touré described the kits as “more than tools they are gateways to possibility,” and urged pupils to see themselves as future doctors, lawyers, engineers, and innovators. For the children of Regent Square, who received their kits on the last day of April 2026, that gateway is now open.
