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It Started With a Question: Celebrating 10 Years of OPPORTUNIGEE

Published on October 27, 2026

In 2016, three SINA scholars asked a question that we had never had to answer before. Patrick Muvunga Trickpa, Turatsinze Mafigi Victor and Raphael Muvunga had come to SINA in Mpigi after living for five years in the Nakivale Refugee Settlement in western Uganda. Around nine months into their journey, they wanted to know: if […]

From East Africa to Zambia: Young People turn Local Challenges into Social Ventures through the Social Impact Award

Published on October 20, 2026

Across SINA’s 24 communities, around 1,000 scholars are discovering their potential and building social enterprises. Many more young people have ideas rooted in challenges they know first-hand. The Social Impact Award gives young people beyond the SINA communities a way to explore social entrepreneurship and develop early-stage ideas into enterprises through training, incubation, mentoring and […]

Two SINA scholars recognised at Uganda’s Girl Champion Awards 2026

Published on October 9, 2026

We are celebrating Viola Nakadama and Sandra Peace Naluzze, who received the Girl Earth Award and Girl Innovation Award respectively at Uganda’s National Girl Champion Awards 2026 in Uganda yesterday. They come from two SINA communities, Kiira Innovation Academy in Nyenga and Jangu International in Mpigi, where they have been developing their enterprises alongside fellow […]

SINA featured in the Magazine: “Designing for Freedom”

Published on October 8, 2026

How can freedom grow without losing what makes it work? This question runs through the second issue of Designing for Freedom, an independent magazine by Tine Bieber. We are featured in the article “Scaling What Cannot Be Standardized,” based on her conversation with Philipp Mäntele, Systems Steward at SINA. The detailed article explores a question […]

SINA Wins Third Consecutive ZeroDX Award as Uganics Earns Its Own Recognition

Published on September 22, 2026

SINA has won the ZeroDX Award for the third consecutive year, receiving the Benchmark Innovators recognition at the 2026 ceremony in Qingdao, China, on September 21. Uganics, the Ugandan social enterprise founded by SINA alumna Joan Nalubega, won in the Emergent Excellence category. Ten social enterprises from our ecosystem were nominated this year. For us […]

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2007

Kankobe Children's Home

Etienne Salborn volunteers in the Kankobe Children’s Home in Uganda and creates an educational sponsorship program for orphans after leaving the orphanage.

2009

Formation of Jangu

The sponsorship program reaches 30 students and "Jangu e.V." is founded to manage them professionally.

2013

Collective Idea for SINA

The 1st generation of sponsored youth completes High School but drowns in youth unemployment. In an Open Space the idea for a space where youth create their own jobs is born.

2014

Jangu International

The 1st SINA is created by collectively building the model, culture and the space in Mpigi with 15 Ugandan facilitators, international experts and Jangu e.V. graduates.

2015

Proof of Concept

The 1st SINA Community grows to 50 members and proves that marginalized youth can unleash their potentials and become social entrepreneurs through self-organized and freesponsible education.

2016

Proving Scalability

Three refugees find SINA, join and 9 months later make "SINA" their social enterprise by replicating the model into the Nakivale Refugee Settlement.

2018

UNHCR Innovation Award

SINA is replicated by and for refugees in the Bidibidi Refugee Settlement and wins the UNHCR Innovation Award. A partnership starts to replicate SINA in Zimbabwe with UNHCR.

2019

SINA Global

SINA Global is established to serve a growing network of SINA Communities, hundreds of social enterprises born at SINAs and support further replications across Africa.

2026

Exponential Impact

With 24 SINAs in 10 countries and strategic partnerships, a freesponsible and regenerative movement for exponential scale and impact has emerged.

Partners & Supporters

"I'm living my dreams and not dreaming my life!"

Joseph Bwinika

Founder of Tucheke Movies Production, Nakivale Refugee Sttlement

"Before I joined SINA I didn’t know what to do with my life, I was scared that I was going to be a failure because I had no hopes of continuing with studies but after joining SINA and through a lot of empowerment and coaching, I realized my passions and regained hope for success and created a change in my life."

Joan Nalubega

Founder of Uganics

"I am now strong emotionally and no longer put blame on anyone for the challenges that I met in life and I uphold challenges to give me solutions. I was able to find my passion and create a social benefit to the society out of it."

Angella Marjorie

Founder of the Gejja Women Foundation

"Before SINA, I was not able to express myself and give my view about challenges that affect me and my community, after SINA am able to pursue my passion and dreams of fashion and supporting persons with disabilities with the help of life coaches and mentors. SINA has changed my life through discovering myself, identifying and developing my passions and it has kept me thinking and creative all the time. I am an empowered leader now and have been able to create an enterprise. "

Juliet Namujju

Founder of Kimuli Collections

"SINA has impacted me in many ways. It is the place and environment where I discovered myself deeply. I learned how to find solutions towards problems and pains I had."

Turatsinze Victor

Co-Founder of Unleashed in the Nakivale Refugee Settlement

"SINA is a life transforming environment which is giving hope and meaning to life of youth. I was hopeless and I didn’t know what I was going to do but since I joined SINA I am now developing my professional skills and my personal growth. It is helping me to become an entrepreneur."

Sylvain Himbana

Co-Founder of SINA Loketa in Bidibidi Refugee Camp