With its first-of-its-kind Innovation Awards, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is setting course towards exploring new, local and especially people-centered community approaches towards making sure refugees are part of the solution. We are honored to be among the first winners and partners as the bigger SINA community and with UNHCR support, of identifying young refugees from around the world interested in the SINA self-reliance model, we are committed to support local communities scale SINA into refugee contexts around the world, transforming challenges into opportunities!
Read the full article by the UNHCR explaining more about their first innovation award and the reasons for choosing SINA and our Loketa community in the Bidi Bidi refugee camp as the co-winner among 165 global submissions: