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Helping to enhance youth innovation – SINA in the Ugandan News

The Daily Monitor is one of Uganda’s leading newspapers and runs a weekly special section “Prosper” on Innovation and Entrepreneurship. After already seven SINA enterprises had been featured last year, this time it is SINA as a whole through an interview with Etienne Salborn.

Uganics on NTV

Uganics has been featured on one of the most popular Ugandan National television stations “NTV”, showcasing innovation made in Uganda.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

We are wishing all of our friends, partners, supporters and SINA communities a Merry Christmas and a Happy New and Prosperous Year.

Tusafishe featured on NTV Uganda

Our startup Tusafishe, producing biosand water filters for communities and schools has been featured on NTV, one of Uganda’s biggest TV stations:

Fireside Chat in Kyiv, Ukraine

Yesterday evening our Etienne Salborn had a Fireside Chat at the Social Impact Award Global Summit in Kyiv, Ukraine and talked about social entrepreneurship as a tool for empowering marginalized youth and the importance of supporting people to create their own solutions. The session was hosted by the Managing Director of SIA International and Grapically […]

Inclusive and Sustainable Fashion Show

Our startup Kimuli Fashionability has transformed the SINA mainhall for the first Inclusive and Sustainable Fashion Show, taking place tonight at SINA in Mpigi. It will celebrate fashion made from waste materials, as well as demonstrate that disability is not an inability and what Kimuli’s tailors (who are disabled) have been able to achieve. The […]

SINA wins Pan-African Award for Entrepreneurship in Education

We are very honored to be this year’s winner of the Pan-African Awards for Entrepreneurship in Education, which comes with a $15,000 prize to allow us to invite interested youth from other African countries to our existing SINA communities in Uganda for experiencing the SINA model first hand and possibly work together to replicate it […]

SINA at the G-STIC Conference in Brussels

SINA Co-Founder Philipp Mäntele together with SINA Scholar John Sadiki have been presenting SINA at the G-STIC – the Global Sustainable Technology and Innovation Conference in Brussels, Belgium.

Upcycle Africa wins IET Innovation Awards

Cutting edge advances in the fields of engineering and technology were celebrated at the Institution of Engineering and Technology’s (IET) Innovation Awards ceremony in the heart of London. Our Startup “Upcycle Africa” won in the category Sustainability & Environmental Impact for constructing affordable homes out of plastic waste while empowering communities to protect the environment.

Kimuli Fashionability Young Employer of the Year

Job creation is a prerequisite for lasting peace and stability. If the jobs leverage the talents of people with disabilities in an empowering work culture, this Award is the result. We congratulate our Kimuli Fashionability for the “Uganda Young Employer of the Year”.