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, […]
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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 […]
Kimuli Fashionability live on BBC and ADAMSTART Covid-19 Challenge Winner
Adamstart launched a global call-out for young changemakers to submit their sustainable business ideas which tackled the Coronavirus pandemic. After receiving over 1.000 entries across over 30 countries, our Kimuli Fashionability is among the five AdamStart COVID-19 Challenge winners We congratulate Kimuli Fashionability! Join Juliet Namujju today at 12:30 Ugandan time live on BBC World […]
Kimuli Fashionability on CGTN Africa
Our Kimuli Fashionability is upcycling plastic waste into fashion and accessories, while employing disabled tailors. Since the government of Uganda has made the wearing of face masks mandatory, people with hearing impairments are struggling. Kimuli innovated a face mask suitable for people with hearing impairments.
Report on the German-Ugandan Youth Exchange
In September 2018 seven SINA members from Uganda went to Berlin and in September 2019 seven German youth came to Uganda and were hosted at SINA for a youth exchange program organized by VIA e.V. and supported by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development. The participants learned about the Sustainable Development Goals […]
Uganics wins Katerva Award
Katerva‘s mission is to create a global community interested in finding and accelerating the spread of the world’s most promising sustainable innovations. After a rigorous review process involving 600+ professionals, 4 filtering phases, and 2 stages of focused review in order to be called the best, most promising on the planet, Uganics emerged as the […]
SINA in the future magazine
Future Magazine is an online and offline publication gathering opinions, analysis and interviews on how our common future might look like. It is focusing on social innovations and its founder Ciprian Stanescu interviewed Etienne Salborn about the future SINA is creating. You can read it here.