AWS backs Agilix Labs’ AI learning program for youth in Sierra Leone

A new community learning center in Freetown

The program is operated by the Future Learning Institute, or FLI, which Agilix Labs created in 2025 following an agreement with Sierra Leone’s Ministry of Technical and Higher Education. FLI will formally launch Finder on November 10, 2026, when it opens its second community learning center at Freetown Polytechnic’s Jui Campus in Freetown.

The institute’s first center opened in the Kono district in March 2026. The Freetown center will extend the program to young Sierra Leoneans who have the qualifications to enter university but were unable to secure a place. The program specifically includes young women, students with disabilities, and young people from rural areas and low-income families.

Training young people as community researchers

In the Finder program, a researcher is a young person who receives questions from the community. The researcher uses AI with judgment adapted to local circumstances, checks the work, and returns a result that can be used by a trader, farmer, or teacher.

During the year-long program, learners will respond to questions submitted by local businesses and community groups with the help of artificial intelligence. Lessons are delivered and managed through Agilix Dawn, a platform that continues to operate even when a signal is lost.

The AWS authorization allows learners to carry out their AI-based work using Amazon Bedrock. Agilix Labs co-founder and chief executive Curt Allen said the company created FLI to help young people find employment, beginning with those ready to learn but without access to suitable facilities. He described the participants’ role as using AI to serve their communities while training for work as researchers.

Why the AWS support matters

The arrangement gives the Finder program access to AWS technology as it builds a practical, community-focused model for AI training. Rather than limiting the program to classroom instruction, the model connects learners’ work with questions from local businesses and community groups.

Sierra Leone’s Minister of Technical and Higher Education, Hon. Dr. Haja Ramatulai Wurie, said of the program: “Please join us in this journey of ensuring that we provide equitable access for our young people.” The launch of the Freetown center means the initiative will have two locations in the country, while its target group includes young people who face barriers to university access, infrastructure, or reliable connectivity.

Agilix Labs is an educational technology company based in Lehi, Utah. Its Buzz platform has users in more than 200 countries and territories and has generated more than 55 million course enrollments, according to the announcement.