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We are excited to see our scholar John Mary Kavuma speak about SINA’s upcycling plastic bottle construction at the One Young World Summit 2018 in The Hague and receiving the Audi Scholarship. Congratulations!!!

SINA has won the Evolutionary Future Challenge in San Francisco and after a presentation by Etienne Salborn, explaining the SINA model, impact examples and its potential for systemic change, SINA was chosen by the judges to receive the Evolutionary Leadership Fellowship. The challenge was organized by the Institute for Evolutionary Leadership and it selected 9 […]

After four years, the Social Innovation Academy (SINA) is scaling. The SINA Model, now in three locations, has been transforming the lives of marginalized youth into changemakers and social entrepreneurs, who are tackling some of the most pressing social challenges and creating jobs. It is amazing to see what social impact can be achieved by […]

We congratulate Juliet Namujju and the entire team of Kimuli Fashionability for having won the YE! Uganda – Young Entrepreneur Award in Kampala last evening. We wish you success in the Global Finals! We also want to congratulate John Mary Kavuma with Upcycle Africa and Elizabeth Nalugemwa with Kyaffe Farmers Coffee for having made it […]

Congratulations to our e-Fundi team for rocking the Uganda Innovation Week and winning the Pitch Perfect Competition (incl. the $1000 cash prize) in conjunction with the Global Business Developers,  The Innovation Village, the Ministry of ICT and Stanbic Bank.

We are pleased to announce that Etienne Salborn has been selected for SINA as a 2018 Evolutionary Future Challenge Finalist, which is recognizing initiatives addressing complex, systemic issues in ways that involve intentional redesigning of worldviews. Congratulations! https://www.evoleadinstitute.com/evochallenge

We congratulate our Scholar Faith Aweko as the winner of DOT IMPACTATHON 2018.

Ugandan National TV “Bukedde” has released three short news pieces on our upcycling Construction of Houses using plastic bottles and roofing from old plastic containers (jerry cans) and car tires:

A small documentary shot at the end of 2017 about SINA as a final University Project in Sweden. Thank you Anja, Linda and Fideli!

This week marks the end of the first Social Innovation Summer School with 12 amazing participants from Pakistan at SINA in Mpigi, Uganda. The participants from the Pakistan Institute of Fashion and Design in Lahore went through an intense experience, cultural immersion and birthed several social innovations and social enterprise ideas to be started in […]