News

Our newest SINA Community called “Congo Innovation Academy (CINA)” was featured on RTUS, a local news agency in Kinshasa (french only):

We are happy to see Kimuli Fashionability at the Uganda Green Enterprise Finance Accelerator funded by the European Union. The program is facilitating the flow of green finance into the Ugandan SMEs sector through strengthening green SMEs and improving available financial mechanisms for SME debt financing.

Exactly twelve months ago the UNDP in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) selected a young person (named Israel) to come to Uganda and experience the SINA Model first hand and learn all the necessary skills to replicate it and create social impact in Kinshasa. After arrival, he teamed up with a SINA scholar from […]

“When entrepreneur Juliet Namujju realized COVID masks were preventing her hearing-impaired staff from lip-reading, she resolved to find another enterprising use for Uganda’s mountains of plastic waste.” – Read the whole story from our SINA enterprise “Kimuli Fashionability” on DW: https://www.dw.com/en/uganda-turning-trash-into-covid-masks-for-the-hearing-impaired/a-56158239 The Italian “Good News” has also captured a story on Kimuli Fashionability and its […]

We are excited to reveal our new SINA Logo and the tagline “Challenges into Opportunities”. The old SINA logo has been with us since 2014 and means a lot to us. The new one is a little more “organized” to display the evolution of the SINA model and its ongoing scaling and replication. The circle […]

An article titled: “SINA: a global movement for systemic change”, was published in the AUNUA Global Magazine today. It can be read here on Issuu or downloaded as a pdf extract of the article:

The Travel Tech for Good Accelerator is an initiative by enpact and the TUI Care Foundation and supported by the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO). Among 6 organizations, SINA was chosen with its tourism activities (see: SINA Village) to go through this virtual 2-week intensive acceleration bootcamp with international and local mentors and experts to perfect […]

After a few months ago SINA was featured on DW with a 7-minute news piece, it appeared again in a shortened version on Eco Africa. Have a look: https://www.dw.com/en/a-talent-campus-in-uganda-for-realizing-visions/av-55815248

Our social enterprise Kimuli Fashionability, producing upcycled fashion and accessories while employing and training persons with disabilities, won two recognitions within the last few days. Congratulations for the Startup of the Year in the Category of COmmunication and Creative Industry and for the StarQT Award.

Our Joan Nalubega, the founder of Uganics, producing mosquito repellent soap, was interviewed by BBC in October. She talks about her experiences as a social entrepreneur. The recording is available in the BBC library here.