We are excited that new teams from Eswatini, Cape Town in South Africa, Kyotera in Uganda, and Berlin in Germany are currently in Mpigi, Uganda, going through the SINA Framework from the inside. For six months, they are not learning replication as a theory. They are living it.
They are taking roles in the community, sitting in meetings where decisions have consequences, and learning what it means when the budget does not fit, when a responsibility is unclear, when trust has to be rebuilt, or when nobody can wait for someone “above” to fix it. This is how Changemaker-Makers are formed.
A new SINA Community starts with people who are willing to carry responsibility before everything is clear. People who experience self-organization in their own bodies first, with the pressure, mistakes, and growth that come with it.
SINA does not grow by opening branches from a central office. We grow when people carry the SINA Framework into their own realities and adapt it with their communities. This is slower. It asks more from everyone involved. But it is also stronger, because the new communities are not owned from the outside. They are built by the people who live in them.
The teams from Eswatini, Cape Town, Kyotera, and Berlin are preparing to create spaces where young people will turn difficult experiences into strength and build social enterprises from the problems they know closely. New SINA Communities are in the making for 2027. And before they become visible as places, they are being built here, through the people learning to carry the responsibility.
Interested to work together with us to bring SINA into your community? Find out all details: https://socialinnovationacademy.org/replicating-sina/