Christmas is close to a month away and if you are looking for meaningful and purposeful gifts this year, have a look at our two SINA products available on amazon in Europe:SINA Pot holders, made by survivors of sexual violenceBiodegradable and natural drinking straws from a grass
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Tusafishe wins “Bayer Social Innovation Award”
With the theme “Change the Course of Water” Bayer recognized the most promising social water entrepreneurs from the Global South with the Bayer Social Innovation Award and Tusafishe is among them for its innovation of community water filters using granite and moringa, which are low-cost but high efficiency. The award comes with a financial reward […]
SINA Acceleration bootcamp with participation from seven African countries
Today marks the end of a one-week intensive Bootcamp with participation from SINAs (and upcoming SINAs) from seven African countries. It was hosted in our Jangu International community Mpigi, Uganda and brought together SINA enterprises, entrepreneurs and mentors from different SINAs, as well as one external enterprise and enterprises from the Uganda Red Cross Society. […]
Jangu International at “Youth For Peace” in Burundi
Our SINA community in Mpigi, Uganda “Jangu International” has been invited and sponsored by the Ministry for Gender, Labour and Social Development together with the Ministry of Defence to represent Ugandan youth and youth organizations in Bujumbura as the only Ugandan organisation to represent the whole of Uganda in the concluded East African Standby Force […]
Patapia part of the “Accelerator for Ventures Serving Forcibly Displaced People”
Acumen, together with the IKEA Foundation, created an acceleration program for enterprises serving forcibly displaced people. We are happy to have seen SINA startup “Patapia” among the selected participants, which also came with financial support for Patapia to grow its impact. Founded by Rebecca Aime, Patapia offers affordable loans to grow small-scale businesses by refugees […]
“Turning waste into a fashion label” – SINA enterprise in the Uganda “New Vision”
Kimuli Fashionability was featured in the Uganda New Vision daily Newspaper and also gives testimony to SINA. Read the full article below:
SINA members win in two categories at “Next Generation Foresight Practitioners Awards”
The Next Generation Foresight Practitioners Awards recognise annually since 2018 the next generation’s endeavours in shaping the future as they drive foresight practice in their communities. Winners receive a fellowship and become part of an international network of foresight practitioners to come together and develop personally, professionally, and collectively. We are delighted to see our […]
SINA winning the Tony Hsieh Award 2022
We are excited to be among the 2022 Award Winners of the Tony Hsieh Award. Tony was the inspirational founder of Zappos, which became one of the biggest holacratic organizations worldwide with many progressive and “more human” organizational elements. After his passing, the award recognizes purpose-driven organizations which are transforming the quality of work and […]
SINA at the “Youth Connekt Summit” 2022 in Kigali
Youth Connekt Africa is a large conference hosted in different African countries annually to support the implementation of relevant South-South initiatives to empower youth. It operates as a pan-African platform with the vision of connecting African youth for socio-economic transformation through enhancing knowledge, experiences and skills while investing in their ideas, innovations and initiatives. The […]
Rebecca Aime named Echoing Green Fellow
Echoing Green supports next-generation social innovators with bold ideas for tackling the world’s most urgent challenges. Fellows receive intensive support (financial and in-kind) to take their social enterprises to the next level. We are excited to see Rebecca Aime selected as one of the Global Fellows. Her social entrepreneurship journey started in SINA and we […]