Category: NEWS

SINA has grown far beyond what I could have imagined when we started in Uganda in 2014. Today, the Social Innovation Academy is a growing ecosystem of SINA Communities, young changemakers, refugee-led and youth-led social enterprises, and local solutions emerging from lived experience. Many people have asked how they can stay updated in a world […]

It started with a partnership of SINA and Circus Zambia, a social enterprise offering unique entertainment while equipping young people from marginalized backgrounds with circus and life skills. Three youth were identified and supported by a German entrepreneur couple to spend 6 months in Uganda from June to December 2025 to go through the SINA Framework and […]

One week, one team, real customers.How SINA works This is the most hands-on SINA format we run. You don’t come to watch, you join an early-stage SINA social enterprise team as an extra team member for the week. It’s practical, intense, messy in a productive way, and you go home inspired with real stories, real […]

A new academic paper, Beyond Boundaries: Exploring Design through Place-Based Learning, has been published in the Learn X Design 2025 conference series of the Design Research Society. Written by Azeem Hamid of the Estonian Academy of Arts and Umar Hameed of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, the paper reflects on a cross-cultural learning project developed […]

HundrED published a new article today about why young people need hope and real control over their own education, and that is exactly the conversation SINA has been part of for years. What matters to us in this article gets to the core of what young people actually need. Too often, education still happens around […]

The SINA Enterprise Bootcamp is a one-week, hands-on immersion into early-stage social entrepreneurship. International participants join SINA social enterprise teams as active team members, working directly with real customers on problem-solution fit, prototyping, pricing, and first revenues. The bootcamp brings together 7 to 8 early-stage social enterprises from SINA communities in Uganda and other African […]

It’s one thing to talk about self-management in theory, but another to see it work on the ground. Over the last few weeks, Corporate Rebels published two deep dives into SINA that go beyond buzzwords to show what “real responsibility” looks like in practice at SINA. The first piece centres on a new animated video […]

What a powerful journey we had yesterday across Nepal, Uganda, Nigeria, Kenya and Rwanda visiting our newest SINA Communities and inspiring SINA social enterprises. The recording of the entire 6h livestream of the SINA Changemaker-maker Event with timestamps is now available here: Thank you to all the speakers, moderators, viewers and supporters! Chapters: 00:00 Official […]

Imagine a world where every young person in Africa becomes the change they want to see! Join us for an extraordinary and inspiring 6h livestream journey across our 5 new SINA Communities in Uganda, Rwanda, Nigeria and Nepal and four impactful SINA Social Enterprises. You will witnessing firsthand how we’re turning this dream into a […]

Imagine a world where every young person in Africa becomes the change they want to see! Join us for an extraordinary and inspiring 6h livestream journey across our 5 new SINA Communities in Uganda, Rwanda, Nigeria and Nepal and four impactful SINA Social Enterprises. You will witnessing firsthand how we’re turning this dream into a […]