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Juliet Namujju is the founder of Kimuli Collections, upcycling plastic waste into fashion and accessories while training and employing people with disabilities. As selected “Young Global Changer” and top eight of the 2023 Recoupling Awards, she was invited to Berlin to pitch her social enterprise to a panel of judges and also meet the German […]

We are thrilled to see SINA featured in Forbes in an article about the winners of the prestigious Tony Hsieh Award. The Award celebrates leaders, entrepreneurs, teams, and companies that are pushing the boundaries in human capital innovation. Being recognized alongside world-class organizations like Dropbox and Mindbloom, SINA exemplifies the transformative power of human capital […]

We are thrilled to present the SINA (Social Innovation Academy) 2022 Impact Report, highlighting the incredible progress and transformative work achieved throughout the year. In the face of changing circumstances, such as the Ebola outbreak in Uganda, we have embraced challenges as opportunities and continued to make a meaningful impact. We have brought growth and […]

On Easter 2014, the German Newspaper “Berliner Morgenpost” published an article about the story of Etienne Salborn and how he started supporting orphans in Uganda in 2006 as a volunteer, which led to the creation of a sponsorship program to attain secondary education and the founding of SINA. The article said, “Etienne Salborn wants to […]

We are delighted to announce that SINA has been selected as one of the four winners of the prestigious Ockenden International Prize 2023, recognising innovative projects promoting self-reliance among refugees and displaced people. According to the jury, out of a record 169 entries, SINA’s project stood out for “training that’s manifestly inspiring young business entrepreneurs […]

Mackline Kobusingye has been with SINA since 2014 as a coach and trainer and recently founded the Mother Support Foundation as a social enterprise producing baby kits. It provides accessible, timely, and quality maternal healthcare services to pregnant women in rural Uganda through a mobile clinic. The services offered include antenatal, delivery, and postnatal care. […]

An article in the New Vision titled “Salborn empowers youth to achieve educational dreams, businesses” has been published today in one of Uganda’s leading newspapers. It tells the detailed story of SINA, its impact in Uganda and the path of its main founder Etienne Salborn. You can read the full article here. SINA officially started […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]