On Easter 2014, the German Newspaper “Berliner Morgenpost” published an article about the story of Etienne Salborn and how he started supporting orphans in Uganda in 2006 as a volunteer, which led to the creation of a sponsorship program to attain secondary education and the founding of SINA. The article said, “Etienne Salborn wants to […]
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SINA wins the Ockenden International Prize 2023
We are delighted to announce that SINA has been selected as one of the four winners of the prestigious Ockenden International Prize 2023, recognising innovative projects promoting self-reliance among refugees and displaced people. According to the jury, out of a record 169 entries, SINA’s project stood out for “training that’s manifestly inspiring young business entrepreneurs […]
Mackline Kobusingye winning the Savvy Prize 2023
Mackline Kobusingye has been with SINA since 2014 as a coach and trainer and recently founded the Mother Support Foundation as a social enterprise producing baby kits. It provides accessible, timely, and quality maternal healthcare services to pregnant women in rural Uganda through a mobile clinic. The services offered include antenatal, delivery, and postnatal care. […]
3-page article in the New Vision on SINA and Etienne Salborn
An article in the New Vision titled “Salborn empowers youth to achieve educational dreams, businesses” has been published today in one of Uganda’s leading newspapers. It tells the detailed story of SINA, its impact in Uganda and the path of its main founder Etienne Salborn. You can read the full article here. SINA officially started […]
Four SINA members among the 50 Young Global Changers
After last year Rebecca Aime and Etienne Salborn were among the ten finalists 2022 and invited to the Global Solutions Summit 2022 in Berlin, we are incredibly excited to see this year four SINA members among the shortlisted 50 Young Global Shapers and semi-finalists of the Young Global Changers Recoupling Award 2023. We want to […]
Kickoff “SINA Summit 2023”
After a successful first edition of a SINA Summit 2022 (watch short recap here), we yesterday kicked of our exciting 2023 edition of the SINA Summit, bringing together members from a total of 14 existing and upcoming SINAs and a total of 16 nationalities out of an overall 50 participants. Many have also come from […]
Okenden International Prize Finalist 2023
We are delighted to be among the 12 finalists of this year’s Ockenden International Prize. The prize, launched in 2012, recognizes organizations that aid refugees or displaced persons. Through SINA, “Marginalized and refugee communities are creating their own sustainable solutions through Freesponsible and Self-organized Learning Spaces,” and empowers refugees and displaced persons by turning them […]
Generous Design Africa (GDA) – Global Bridging Fund Winner
The Bridge International is a Korean organization supporting social entrepreneurs. SINA Social enterprise Generous Design Africa (GDA) from SINA Loketa won the Global Bridging Fund and received financial support to scale their impact and business. Check out the award video made, also calling for new applications for 2023:
External Impact Study: “SINA’s Empowerment Program on Participants’ Agency: A Master’s Thesis”
An independent researcher spent time in Uganda at SINA in 2022 to conduct interviews and research the impact the SINA program has on participant’s agency (‘the capacity of individuals to define aspirational goals and coordinate the knowledge, skills, attitudes, and resources both internally available to them (individual capacities) and externally available to them (in their […]
SINA in the “New Vision” News for its “Food Forest”
In March 2021 we started a Food Forest through Agroforestry in Mpigi Uganda at the SINA Community called “Jangu international”. The Food forest has been growing rapidly and yielded the first crops for consumption within the community in January 2023. The project expanded to work together and empower rural women to learn regenerative farming practices […]