Social Innovation Academy (SINA)

Unemployment stands at the heart of hopelessness amongst youths in Sub-Saharan Africa. With the youth population expected to double by 2050, young people lack opportunities and prospects, which fuels instability and perpetuates poverty. In Uganda alone, 700,000 new entrants join the labor market each year to compete for only 12,000 available formal jobs. Violent conflicts and the lack of economic opportunity led to over 6.6 million refugees and an additional 10 million displaced people.

SINA transforms marginalized youth into social entrepreneurs through a cost-effective and freesponsible community approach. SINA unleashes and nurtures the intrinsic drive within each of its 'scholars.' Tailor-made empowerment stages and self-management processes support scholars to define their own path and put the power of education in their own hands. Enabled as changemakers, scholars often turn challenges into opportunities to make a sustainable living out of what they are passionate about.

1. Created job opportunities and pathways to self-reliance for marginalized youth. 2. Established five SINA Communities with three more on the way in 2020. 3. Provided a holistic and self-managed learning environment fostering social entrepreneurship.