Today, on the birthday of the Liberator Simón Bolívar and Venezuelan National Holiday, the crowdfunding campaign for vvais to bring SINA to Venezuela has officially launched. We cannot wait to receive two young Venezuelan scholars in Uganda as soon as the global pandemic situation allows and wish to ask for your support towards the campaign […]
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SINA wins Community Involvement Initiative by MERCK
Merck, a leading science and technology company with a long family tradition from Germany announced today the launch of the “Community Involvement Initiative” together with its four winners by region. We are excited and grateful to have emerged as the winner for Africa to receive funding to enable disadvantaged people to participate in digital change.
SINA: a global movement in the making and coming to Venezuela
When SINA started in 2014 in Uganda, it was far beyond our wildest dreams to see it scale its impact globally. With preparations ongoing for SINA in the Tongogera Refugee Camp in Zimbabwe and for a SINA in Bukavu and as well in Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo, we are excited to see […]
Kimuli Fashionability live on BBC and ADAMSTART Covid-19 Challenge Winner
Adamstart launched a global call-out for young changemakers to submit their sustainable business ideas which tackled the Coronavirus pandemic. After receiving over 1.000 entries across over 30 countries, our Kimuli Fashionability is among the five AdamStart COVID-19 Challenge winners We congratulate Kimuli Fashionability! Join Juliet Namujju today at 12:30 Ugandan time live on BBC World […]
Kimuli Fashionability on CGTN Africa
Our Kimuli Fashionability is upcycling plastic waste into fashion and accessories, while employing disabled tailors. Since the government of Uganda has made the wearing of face masks mandatory, people with hearing impairments are struggling. Kimuli innovated a face mask suitable for people with hearing impairments.
Report on the German-Ugandan Youth Exchange
In September 2018 seven SINA members from Uganda went to Berlin and in September 2019 seven German youth came to Uganda and were hosted at SINA for a youth exchange program organized by VIA e.V. and supported by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development. The participants learned about the Sustainable Development Goals […]
SINA in the future magazine
Future Magazine is an online and offline publication gathering opinions, analysis and interviews on how our common future might look like. It is focusing on social innovations and its founder Ciprian Stanescu interviewed Etienne Salborn about the future SINA is creating. You can read it here.
SINA spotlighted by Anzisha
The Anzisha prize, in collaboration with the African Leadership Academy and the Mastercard Foundation searches for young social entrepreneurs (15 to 22 years) across Africa. After in 2018 Joan Nalubega emerged as the runner-up of the award and in 2019 Saudah Birungi made it as an Anzisha Fellow, the Anzisha team visted SINA in Mpigi […]
SINA in times of Corona: an interview in the Pioneer Post
The Pioneer Post is a UK-based social enterprise magazine. Anna Patton, the managing editor had visited SINA in 2016, which had left a lasting impression on her. She reached out four years later to interview Etienne Salborn and Joan Nalubega for her series on how social enterprises around the world are dealing with a new […]
Freesponsibility
You will hear this term frequently when you are at SINA, the Social Innovation Academy. But what do we mean with it? Freesponsibility – a precondition for unleashing full potentials How can people become the best they can be and unleash their full potentials? A common approach is to support the growth of individuals through […]