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Tourism for Development Panel

Join us for the free and live Panel of Tourism for Development organized by the TUI Care Foundation for Social entrepreneurship and technology with SINA Founder Etienne Salborn. Find more details and the link to register here: https://www.tuicarefoundation.com/en/take-action/linking-and-learning-web-series

Makers of Social Change – Film

This film showcases the different refugee initiated solutions to reproductive health challenges of SINA scholars in the Nakivale and Bidibidi Refugee Settlements. It was made possible with the support of ideo.org through funding of UK Aid. Watch on Youtube

International Coaching Certification

We are very excited that three SINA team members have yesterday been internationally certified as coaches through Erickson International in the world-renowned program “The Art & Science of Coaching™”. They are part of the first group of Ugandans to achieve this. Coaching is a creative tool that SINA has been using since 2014 with our […]

SINA Enterprises in WE Forum and East African Newspaper

We are happy to see our enterprise “Reform Africa” featured in the East African and our enterprise “Kimuli Fashionability” in an article by the World Economic Forum: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/09/face-masks-hearing-loss-disability

DW Report on SINA: “Realizing Visions – a talent campus in Uganda”

The German international news broadcaster Deutsche Welle (DW) visited SINA and captured a news piece for their Global 3000 program titled: “Realizing Visions – a talent campus in Uganda” SINA Founder Etienne Salborn was interviewed and the success stories captured of Joan Nalubega with her mosquito repellant soap (Uganics) and Johnmary Kavuma with the upcycling […]

UN-Habitat Scroll of Honour Award given to Upcycle Africa

The UN-Habitat Scroll of Honour award was launched in 1989 and is one of the most prestigious human settlements award in the world. It aims to acknowledge initiatives which have made outstanding contributions in the field of human settlements, provision of housing, highlighting the plight of people living in poverty or who have been displaced, […]

Upcycle Africa selected for the IKEA Social Entrepreneurship Accelerator

Acumen and IKEA established an accelerator to strengthen 20 social enterprises in East Africa. Through online learning as well as coaching with IKEA co-workers skills and experiences shall be enhanced and allow the social entrepreneurs scale their impact. We are excited to see our social enterprise “Upcycle Africa” among the 20 selected social ventures. Find […]

Crowdfunding launched to bring SINA to Venezuela

Today, on the birthday of the Liberator Simón Bolívar and Venezuelan National Holiday, the crowdfunding campaign for vvais to bring SINA to Venezuela has officially launched. We cannot wait to receive two young Venezuelan scholars in Uganda as soon as the global pandemic situation allows and wish to ask for your support towards the campaign […]

SINA wins Community Involvement Initiative by MERCK

Merck, a leading science and technology company with a long family tradition from Germany announced today the launch of the “Community Involvement Initiative” together with its four winners by region. We are excited and grateful to have emerged as the winner for Africa to receive funding to enable disadvantaged people to participate in digital change.

SINA: a global movement in the making and coming to Venezuela

When SINA started in 2014 in Uganda, it was far beyond our wildest dreams to see it scale its impact globally. With preparations ongoing for SINA in the Tongogera Refugee Camp in Zimbabwe and for a SINA in Bukavu and as well in Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo, we are excited to see […]