I am from Germany and was working as an electrical engineer when I noticed that technology needs to serve people to be helpful. I quit my job and started to study vocational education. I soon realized vocational education focuses on creating employees rather than supporting youth with the necessary mindset and skills to challenge and recreate economic and social value.
In a time of globally interlinked challenges, we need new approaches for education that foster resilient and empathetic teams and communities. I got connected to Etienne Salborn and heard about his endeavor to create a place in Uganda for humanistic and intrinsic learning towards social entrepreneurship. I decided to join, move to Uganda in 2014 and co-create the model of SINA and create a concept for entrepreneurship education. My involvement went from fostering a mindset of facilitation among the early adopters of the concept towards helping people to challenge and reinterpret the idea in their surroundings for replication. Now six years later, I am living together with Maggie, my beautiful Ugandan wife, and our child Finn. Every day I am focusing to continue to realize create the dream of self-organized academies for social entrepreneurship.