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The Anzisha prize, in collaboration with the African Leadership Academy and the Mastercard Foundation searches for young social entrepreneurs (15 to 22 years) across Africa. After in 2018 Joan Nalubega emerged as the runner-up of the award and in 2019 Saudah Birungi made it as an Anzisha Fellow, the Anzisha team visted SINA in Mpigi […]

The Pioneer Post is a UK-based social enterprise magazine. Anna Patton, the managing editor had visited SINA in 2016, which had left a lasting impression on her. She reached out four years later to interview Etienne Salborn and Joan Nalubega for her series on how social enterprises around the world are dealing with a new […]

You will hear this term frequently when you are at SINA, the Social Innovation Academy. But what do we mean with it? Freesponsibility – a precondition for unleashing full potentials How can people become the best they can be and unleash their full potentials? A common approach is to support the growth of individuals through […]

In the Nakivale Refugee Settlement scholars from OPPORTUNIGEE created this song to express themselves in times of Corona Lockdown

Due to the mandated lock down, people in Uganda are unable to generate an income which provides their families with food and pays for utilities. SINA and its social enterprises have rolled-up their selves and are supporting Ugandans to get through this crisis. Together we have launched a crowdfunding campaign, organised a hackathon and are […]

Reform Africa emerged as the winner of the Recycling Day Competition by Waste360. It comes with a prize of 1.000 Dollars. You can read more in this article:

We have been taking a lead to work online towards creating solutions in times of the COVID-19 pandemic. We have partnered with Starthub Africa and Zetu Africa for the “smarter than corona” hackathon. When reality feels like a post-apocalyptic movie and our options seem limited, we MUST roll up our sleeves and find a solution, […]

Given the directive provided by the Government of Uganda in the prevention and fight against a possible spread of COVID-19, we have suspended our educational activities in SINA for the next 30 days, as of today. We hope all of you stay healthy!

The Inflight Magazine of fastjet called “Calameo” published a detailed story about the mosquito repellant soap “Uganics” and its founder Joan Nalubega:

The year, 2019, was truly exciting for the Social Innovation Academy (SINA). The first SINA Community in Mpigi celebrated five years of existence and a new SINA Community started in Kampala, while the other communities were able to increase their impact and establish themselves fully. We were able to create an official partnership with the […]