SINA has grown far beyond what I could have imagined when we started in Uganda in 2014. Today, the Social Innovation Academy is a growing ecosystem of SINA Communities, young changemakers, refugee-led and youth-led social enterprises, and local solutions emerging from lived experience. Many people have asked how they can stay updated in a world […]
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Impact Report 2025
Across 23 SINA Communities in 9 countries, young people who were often written off are building their own futures and creating jobs for themselves and for others. Our new Impact Report shows what that looked like in 2025, through social enterprises launched, new communities started, partnerships built, and around 2,000 jobs created to date. Behind […]
At SINA, young people facing the challenges create the solutions
There is something strange about the way many systems deal with young people in crisis. Often, the people furthest from the challenges design the answers. The curriculum usually arrives from somewhere else. Funding follows its own logic, often written for people who have never set foot in a refugee settlement or sat with someone who […]
A Strong Month of March Across the SINA Ecosystem
After a difficult start to 2026 in Uganda, with the presidential election held on January 15 and an internet shutdown during the election period, March brought a different rhythm. As the country moved beyond the election season, activity picked up again. Across Mpigi, Jinja, and beyond Uganda, the month brought the kind of movement we […]
New SINA Community Starts in Lusaka, Zambia
It started with a partnership of SINA and Circus Zambia, a social enterprise offering unique entertainment while equipping young people from marginalized backgrounds with circus and life skills. Three youth were identified and supported by a German entrepreneur couple to spend 6 months in Uganda from June to December 2025 to go through the SINA Framework and […]
Join Our Social Enterprise Acceleration Bootcamp June 14 – 19, 2026 in Uganda
One week, one team, real customers.How SINA works This is the most hands-on SINA format we run. You don’t come to watch, you join an early-stage SINA social enterprise team as an extra team member for the week. It’s practical, intense, messy in a productive way, and you go home inspired with real stories, real […]
New Academic Paper Explores Place-based Learning in Partnership with SINA
A new academic paper, Beyond Boundaries: Exploring Design through Place-Based Learning, has been published in the Learn X Design 2025 conference series of the Design Research Society. Written by Azeem Hamid of the Estonian Academy of Arts and Umar Hameed of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, the paper reflects on a cross-cultural learning project developed […]
HundrED highlights SINA’s youth-led approach to education
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 […]
SINA Is Starting a Community in Germany – Call for Replicators (“Changemaker-Makers”)
SINA is planning to replicate from Uganda to Berlin, Germany. Starting in June 2026 with a 6 months learning journey in Uganda and in January 2027, we will open SINA in Berlin, a self-organised learning and entrepreneurship community for disadvantaged young people in Berlin, joining our growing movement of currently 23+ SINA Communities. It is […]
SINA Social Enterprise Bootcamp, Uganda (February 24 to March 3, 2026)
The SINA Enterprise Bootcamp is a one-week, hands-on immersion into early-stage social entrepreneurship. International participants join SINA social enterprise teams as active team members, working directly with real customers on problem-solution fit, prototyping, pricing, and first revenues. The bootcamp brings together 7 to 8 early-stage social enterprises from SINA communities in Uganda and other African […]