About the Digital & Financial Inclusion Programme
The Digital & Financial Inclusion Programme is Creative Hub Africa’s flagship initiative for closing both the digital gap and the financial gap in Sierra Leone’s creative and entrepreneurial ecosystem.
Many creatives, entrepreneurs and business owners are talented and hardworking, but:
- don’t have the digital skills to show up online and sell, and
- don’t have the financial knowledge or access to manage money, save, or grow their business.
We work with women, youths, persons with disabilities, and informal businesses, especially those in underserved communities – to make sure they are not left behind as business, culture, and payments move online.
Our goal: help creative entrepreneurs and MSMEs become visible, bankable, and investment-ready.
What We Do
- Builds digital skills for business
- Strengthens financial literacy for creatives
- Connects creatives to financial services
- Promotes digital payments and safer transactions
- Supports access for underserved groups
- Provides hands-on coaching and follow-up
Impact & Vision
- Help creatives and MSMEs show up online, get discovered, and get paid
- Increase the number of creatives and MSMEs who use digital payments and keep basic financial records
- Support more youth- and women-led businesses to become formal, bankable and investment-ready
- Reduce the digital and financial exclusion that keeps creative talent stuck at survival level
- Build a pipeline of creative MSMEs who can benefit from larger programmes, grants, loans, and investment
This programme is part of our wider mission to make Africa the home for creative changemakers – where a young designer, filmmaker, musician, or craftsperson is not only creative, but also digitally visible and financially empowered.
Get Involved
Are you a creative entrepreneur or MSME who wants to improve your digital and financial skills?
👉🏾 Join our next Digital & Financial Inclusion cohort: Apply here
Are you a partner, bank, fintech or donor?
👉🏾 Work with us to expand digital and financial inclusion for creatives & MSMEs across Sierra Leone.
Contact us at info@creativehubafrica.com or +232 00 000000 to explore collaboration opportunities.