The Westerwelle Foundation from Germany created the Young Founders Programme (YFP) to take 25 founders from Asia, Africa, and LatAm through a 6-month fellowship with mentorship, expert workshops, peer learning, and networking and a 5-day conference in Berlin. We were excited to see Catherine Nakayemba selected for the spring cohort 2022 with SafeGirl, which are […]
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‘Reform Africa’ in The Guardian and featured on World Economic Forum
The SINA Startup ‘Reform Africa‘, upcycling plastic bags into backpacks, was featured as “one of six innovative uses of plastic waste” in The Guardian and also as “5 ways plastic waste is being used creatively around the world” by the World Economic Forum. We are excited to see such wide recognition for something which was […]
A Food Forest in SINA Mpigi (Agroforestry)
In SINA Mpigi (Jangu international) earlier this year, we started with the implementation of a demonstration agroforestry (Food Forest) for nature conservation, an increase of biodiversity, regeneration of the area, soil building, CO₂-binding and reforestation, as well as sustainable use and conservation through food production and processing of natural products. In a four-day event with […]
SINA and 3 of its enterprises featured in “Business Punk”
The German economic magazine “Business Punk” published a seven-page story on recycling in Uganda and the story of SINA with its enterprises of Kimuli Fashionability, Upcycle Africa and Ouroots Africa.The magazine ePaper 04/2022 can be purchased here.
SINA wins “Modern Work Award” 2022
The Modern Work Award searches and recognizes organizations and companies that embrace a different way to work together. Winning the category of “Modern Work Shaper”, SINA is extremely grateful and honored to receive this award. You can watch the entire Award Show 2022, which includes more details about the award, the reasoning behind the Jury […]
SINA becoming a Community Partner of Impact Hub
Impact Hub is a global network of over 100 spaces in 60 countries for innovation, acceleration and coworking. Impact Hub has invited the first four like-minded organizations to engage in a long-term strategic alliance to build and support entrepreneurial communities for impact at scale. By collaborating we will connect and enable impact makers together and […]
Impact Report 2021
The year 2021 has been a challenging one again but transforming challenges into opportunities has been our slogan and looking back, we have achieved a lot and wish to share this with you in our 2021 Impact Report. We wish to thank all supporters, partners, and SINA members for the incredible support and for enabling […]
Transformation Innovation Hub features on Zimbabwean national TV channel ZBC
The SINA community in the Tongogara refugee camp in Zimbabwe was featured on the national TV for its innovative and creative plastic bottle house. Evode Hakizimana, the co-founder of Transformation Innovation Hub, explains why “waste is not waste until you waste it”. Together with other young people in the camp, they used upcycled plastic bottles […]
Learning by Founding – SINA as a Case Study for Entrepreneurship Education in Refugee Camps
The FII INSTITUTE is a new global non-profit foundation and think Tank to advance Impact on Humanity. this month´s Spotlight Series is on refugees and how refugees can create a future for themselves through entrepreneurship. Titled “Learning by Founding – Social Entrepreneurship Education for Refugees”, the publication sheds light on the global issue and displays […]
Food Forest in SINA Mpigi
In our SINA Mpigi community (called Jangu International) a new project was planed and implemented for a “Food Forest”, which is agroforestry to create biodiversity and a healthy ecosystem for regenerative agriculture. For the kick-off, a big three day event was planned and successfully implemented: