Etienne Salborn will speak and present SINA at the “Regens Unite” on Saturday 17th September in Berlin, Germany. The gathering unites people who are working on regenerative solutions in different fields and on social and environmental innovations for a world which can work for everyone. Tickets and more information are available at: https://www.regensunite.berlin/
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Two SINA alumni selected for Westerwelle Foundation Young Founders Programme
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 […]
‘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 […]
It’s all rubbish: Up-cycling waste into fashionable items
Our Alumni Namujju Juliet and Faith Aweko feature with their respective social enterprises Kimuli Fashionability and Reform Africa in The East African magazine. Described as “fashion creatives”, their journey of transforming waste materials into sustainable fashion is an inspiring tale. They create products such as garments, accessories, coffee tables and other household items. You can read the whole article here http://It’s all rubbish: […]
Applications open for SINA Replication in Zanzibar
SINA (Social Innovation Academy) is awarding fully funded scholarships for young Zanzibari to become FutureShapers and travel to UGANDA in June 2022 to learn how to build a community of people who want to change the world for the better through social entrepreneurship through replication of the SINA model. Are you ready for this adventure? […]
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 […]