Category: NEWS

This film showcases the different refugee initiated solutions to reproductive health challenges of SINA scholars in the Nakivale and Bidibidi Refugee Settlements. It was made possible with the support of ideo.org through funding of UK Aid. Watch on Youtube

We are very excited that three SINA team members have yesterday been internationally certified as coaches through Erickson International in the world-renowned program “The Art & Science of Coaching™”. They are part of the first group of Ugandans to achieve this. Coaching is a creative tool that SINA has been using since 2014 with our […]

We are happy to see our enterprise “Reform Africa” featured in the East African and our enterprise “Kimuli Fashionability” in an article by the World Economic Forum: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/09/face-masks-hearing-loss-disability

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 […]

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.

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 […]

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 […]

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.

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 […]

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.