After last year Rebecca Aime and Etienne Salborn were among the ten finalists 2022 and invited to the Global Solutions Summit 2022 in Berlin, we are incredibly excited to see this year four SINA members among the shortlisted 50 Young Global Shapers and semi-finalists of the Young Global Changers Recoupling Award 2023. We want to […]
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Kickoff “SINA Summit 2023”
After a successful first edition of a SINA Summit 2022 (watch short recap here), we yesterday kicked of our exciting 2023 edition of the SINA Summit, bringing together members from a total of 14 existing and upcoming SINAs and a total of 16 nationalities out of an overall 50 participants. Many have also come from […]
Okenden International Prize Finalist 2023
We are delighted to be among the 12 finalists of this year’s Ockenden International Prize. The prize, launched in 2012, recognizes organizations that aid refugees or displaced persons. Through SINA, “Marginalized and refugee communities are creating their own sustainable solutions through Freesponsible and Self-organized Learning Spaces,” and empowers refugees and displaced persons by turning them […]
Generous Design Africa (GDA) – Global Bridging Fund Winner
The Bridge International is a Korean organization supporting social entrepreneurs. SINA Social enterprise Generous Design Africa (GDA) from SINA Loketa won the Global Bridging Fund and received financial support to scale their impact and business. Check out the award video made, also calling for new applications for 2023:
External Impact Study: “SINA’s Empowerment Program on Participants’ Agency: A Master’s Thesis”
An independent researcher spent time in Uganda at SINA in 2022 to conduct interviews and research the impact the SINA program has on participant’s agency (‘the capacity of individuals to define aspirational goals and coordinate the knowledge, skills, attitudes, and resources both internally available to them (individual capacities) and externally available to them (in their […]
SINA in the “New Vision” News for its “Food Forest”
In March 2021 we started a Food Forest through Agroforestry in Mpigi Uganda at the SINA Community called “Jangu international”. The Food forest has been growing rapidly and yielded the first crops for consumption within the community in January 2023. The project expanded to work together and empower rural women to learn regenerative farming practices […]
SINA recycled clothing pegs (clothespins) on Amazon
Attention to all eco-conscious people! Our recycled clothing pegs, are now available on Amazon in Germany. These pegs are not only fair-trade made by a social enterprise in the Bidibidi refugee camp in Uganda, but also sustainable as they are made from recycled plastic. They are nearly indestructible as they are made from one piece. […]
A Freesponsible World
SINA (Social Innovation Academy) envisions a “freesponsible world” and is creating a regenerative and freesponsible movement by living, learning and working in the way we wish to see the world. Disadvantaged young people become changemaker-makers and social entrepreneurs turning challenges into opportunities. Everyone has the freedom to make their own choices and decisions and, at […]
Etienne Salborn in the “New Vision” (Uganda)
Today on 2nd January 2023, the leading Ugandan Newspaper “New Vision” collected business advice from different business leaders and entrepreneurs in Uganda. It included the words of SINA Founder Etienne Salborn for the importance of investing in your team and a healthy organizational culture around trust and a shared purpose.
SINAs Agroforestry and Permaculture on national TV (NTV) [in Luganda]
Our agroforestry site (food forest) is developing and flourishing (see our post from August here). On Friday, further activities were launched together with the local government and rural Mpigi women, and NTV Uganda reported about it in their daily local news: