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.
News
2018 Evolutionary Future Challenge Finalist
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
SINA Scholar winning the DOT Impactathon 2018
We congratulate our Scholar Faith Aweko as the winner of DOT IMPACTATHON 2018.
SINA’s Construction using plastic bottles on Ugandan National TV
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:
Short Documentary on the Social Innovation Academy (SINA)
A small documentary shot at the end of 2017 about SINA as a final University Project in Sweden. Thank you Anja, Linda and Fideli!
End of the 1st Social Innovation Summer School in Uganda
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 […]
Call for Intern in Social Enterprise Development
We are looking for an intern in Uganda supporting SINA in the Social Enterprise Development of our SINA startups. Benefits Working in a multicultural and distributed authority work environment (with Holacracy as the “operating system”) in a developing country A dynamic team and diverse environment with a multitude of disciplines and industries social enterprises are […]
SINA Presentation Slides
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SINA started in the world’s biggest refugee camp (Bidi Bidi) in northern Uganda
Four years ago around Easter we bought land for our first Social Innovation Academy (SINA) to start in Mpigi, Uganda. At the end of 2016 a team of SINA scholars starting implementing the SINA Model in the Nakivale Refugee Settlement as OPPORTUNIGEE. We are pleased to announce that this Easter, we have been starting a […]
Applications for the Social Impact Award Uganda are now open
SINA is bringing the Social Impact Award to Uganda. It is currently present in 25 countries and in Uganda it will for the first time reach Sub-Saharan Africa. The award is more than a mere cash price but providing support to nurture social entrepreneurs, providing them with training, mentoring and seed funding to launch social […]