Access Point Africa, USAID, WANEP and MARWOPNET are pleased to inform the general public that Internet access is now available to the previously remote and isolated communities in Kailahun, Sierra Leone, Gekedou, Guinea, and Foya, Liberia.

The communities in Foya, Kailahun, and Gekedou have in the past decades been hotbeds for conflict. Using the internet as a tool for building bridges the women in these mostly farming areas have now been trained and empowered to not only use computers but to also manage their own internet Café; in the hopes that this will bring them closer to the rest of the world and more importantly bring connectivity to often forgotten areas in their respective countries.

Groups of 20 local women from Kailahun and Gekedou were trained by MARWOPNET to manage the internet cafés as well as use it to generate income for themselves and their community. Whereas in Foya, similar training classes for the local community were conducted by WANEP.

Computer Frontiers, Inc. a contractor for USAID, under the Mano River Union Connecting Civil Society Organizations, selected the bid by AccessPoint Africa to cross the borders of the three neighboring countries using VSAT technology to link the three areas.

AccessPoint Africa endeavors to participate in small and large scale projects that are focused on developing IT infrastructure in the Mano River Union especially in remote areas. Communities such as Kailahun, Foya, and Gekedou stand to gain tremendously from IT development and internet connectivity. As the only cisco premier partner in the region AccessPoint Africa has the expertise and experience to develop rural connectivity solutions. AccessPoint Africa is “Connecting the Continent”.

Press Contact:
Vickie Remoe-Doherty
AccessPoint Africa Inc.
+232 33 306111
Vickie@apafrica.com