Our impact

Every claim should answer how do you know?

This is TeKi-SL's evidence page: what our platform can count today, what our programme records document over time, and where learner stories add human context.

Learner researching in a library

Three sources, clearly labelled

Live platform dataProgramme recordsLearner follow-up

Count what happened

Separate outputs from outcomes

State what still needs evidence

Live platform data

The platform, as recorded.

A current reading of activity from TeKi-SL's learning platform, presented without inflating activity into impact.

Read these figures as a platform pulse: useful for understanding what is happening now, but not a substitute for long-term learner follow-up.

Registered learners
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Active cohorts
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Completion rate
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Portfolios published
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Open opportunities
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Cumulative programme record

TeKi-SL programme records, 2023 to 2025

400+

learners trained or mentored since 2023.

Cumulative count of Sierra Leonean youths who completed training or structured mentorship with TeKi-SL since 2023, across in-person cohorts, community programmes, and this platform.

Learners collaborating around a laptop

What the total includes

  • 01In-person cohort training
  • 02Community programme participation
  • 03Structured mentorship and platform learning

This total is cumulative. Learner outcomes are examined separately below.

How we measure

Not every number carries the same weight.

We separate activity, learner change, and long-term ambition so the evidence is as clear as the ambition.

  1. 01

    Directly counted

    Outputs

    What did we deliver and count?

    Outputs are what we deliver and count directly: enrollments, lesson completions, cohorts run, portfolios published. The live dashboard on this page reports outputs straight from the platform database.

  2. 02

    Verified through follow-up

    Outcomes

    What changed for a learner?

    Outcomes are changes in the lives of learners: employment, income, further study, work shipped for real clients. We collect these through graduate follow-up and the stories below, and we only publish what a named graduate has told us directly.

  3. 03

    A goal, not a claim

    Long-term impact

    What will take years to prove?

    Long-term impact, such as economic uplift for families and communities, is our goal but takes years to evidence. We do not claim it until follow-up data supports it.

Strong impact reporting is not about making every number sound bigger. It is about making the source, definition, and limit of every claim easy to see.

The learner journey

A route from possibility to proof.

Training only matters when learners can continue from curiosity to work they are proud to show.

  1. Access

    The spark

    A first way in

    A learner joins with curiosity and a phone or shared laptop. Tuition-free foundations remove the first barrier: cost.

  2. Practice

    The grind

    The work, week by week

    Weeks of structured lessons, projects, and mentorship. Progress is tracked on the platform and reviewed by real people.

  3. Proof

    The launch

    Work that can travel

    Graduates leave with portfolio work, a certificate, and a community. Many return as mentors for the next cohort.

A sample of the community

Meet some of the learners behind the record.

More than 400 learners have trained or been mentored with TeKi-SL. We cannot feature everyone here; these named graduates chose to share their photos and stories.

Portrait of Marie Kamara
Marie Kamara
Portrait of Francis Junior Foday
Francis Junior Foday
Portrait of Bockarie Mohamed Jimmy
Bockarie Mohamed Jimmy
Portrait of Allieu Barrie
Allieu Barrie

Four featured stories from a much larger community. No stock photos.

Read their words

In their words

Outcomes, told by the graduates themselves.

Collected directly from named graduates during follow-up. Published with permission.

Where others see scattered tasks, I see patterns waiting to be organized. Through TEKI-SL I can now boast of solving complex ICT problems within my administrative domain to shape policy in Sierra Leone.

Francis Junior Foday

Public Administrator, Kenema

Portrait of Francis Junior Foday
Named graduate follow-up