HundrED published a new article today about why young people need hope and real control over their own education, and that is exactly the conversation SINA has been part of for years. What matters to us in this article gets to the core of what young people actually need. Too often, education still happens around them and for them, but not with them. At SINA, the starting point is different. Scholars shape the community they are part of. They take “freesponsibility”. They learn by doing. They discover what matters to them and build from there.
That changes something deep. A young person who has been told to wait, to fit in, or to lower their expectations begins to see that they can create work, lead others, and solve real problems in their community. That is where hope becomes concrete and shaping a prosperous future. Across 23 SINA Communities, young people from disadvantaged backgrounds have gone on to build more than 130 social enterprises and create over 2,000 jobs. Those numbers matter, but they are only part of the story. What they really point to is a different way of learning, one that treats young people as capable from the beginning and finding their purpose in line and taking action to live out the purpose, regardless if they start their own social enterprise or not.
Read the full article here: https://hundred.org/en/articles/youth-need-hope-and-control-over-their-own-education
We are grateful to HundrED for recognizing SINA also under the Global 100 Collection of 2026 and for helping bring more attention to education models that trust youth with real ownership.