Agilix Labs wins AWS grant for Sierra Leone AI education program
Agilix Labs has received a grant from Amazon Web Services, Inc. through the AWS Education Equity Initiative to support the Finder Program in Sierra Leone. The program trains young people to use AI and local judgment to answer questions from businesses and community groups.
- Agilix Labs received an AWS Education Equity Initiative grant.
- The Finder Program formally launches on Nov. 10, 2026.
- A second Community Learning Center is opening at Freetown Polytechnic.
- The year-long program serves young Sierra Leoneans who could not get a university place.
- Learners will use Agilix Dawn and Amazon Bedrock for AI-supported work.
AWS grant will support the Finder Program
The grant will help Agilix Labs use AI and cloud technology to support the Finder Program, which is run by the Future Learning Institute, or FLI. Agilix Labs established FLI in 2025 under an agreement with Sierra Leone’s Ministry of Technical and Higher Education.
FLI is formally launching the program on Nov. 10, 2026, at a new Community Learning Center on Freetown Polytechnic’s Jui Campus in Freetown. The site will be the program’s second Community Learning Center. FLI’s first center, in Kono District, opened in March 2026.
Sierra Leone’s Minister of Technical and Higher Education, Hon. Dr. Haja Ramatulai Wurie, said: “Please join us in this journey of ensuring that we provide equitable access for our young people.”
Training young people for community-focused work
The year-long program is intended for young Sierra Leoneans who qualified for university but could not get a place. It includes young women, students with disabilities, and young people from rural areas and low-income families.
A Finder is defined by FLI as a young person whom the community brings its questions to. Finders use AI alongside local judgment, check the results, and return information that a trader, farmer, or teacher can use. During the program, learners will take on questions from local businesses and community groups and work with AI to develop answers.
“Our young people know their communities better than anyone,” said Mustapha Turay, President of FLI Centers in Sierra Leone. Turay added: “I promised myself that whatever education I got in the United States, I would bring it home. We started in Kono. Now Freetown has a center of its own.”
AI lessons will run through Agilix Dawn and Amazon Bedrock
Lessons will run on Agilix Dawn, which the company says keeps working when the signal drops. With the AWS grant, learners’ AI work will run on AWS through Amazon Bedrock.
“We founded FLI to help young people get jobs, starting with those who were ready to learn and had no place to do it,” said Curt Allen, Co-Founder, Chairman and CEO of Agilix Labs. “At our centers, they use AI to serve their own communities. Finder is the job we're training them for.”
The initiative gives the program a way to combine cloud-based AI with training designed around local questions and needs. Agilix Labs is an education technology company based in Lehi, Utah. Its Buzz platform has supported more than 55 million course enrollments, with users in more than 200 countries and territories, according to the company.