{"id":618,"date":"2025-11-13T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/5.189.180.62:85\/index.php\/2025\/11\/13\/apply-for-toonda-innovation-lab\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T07:54:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T07:54:10","slug":"apply-for-toonda-innovation-lab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toonda.org\/index.php\/2025\/11\/13\/apply-for-toonda-innovation-lab\/","title":{"rendered":"Apply for Toonda Innovation Lab"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The Toonda Innovation Lab is a two-week, very practical and intensive programme about self-discovery, social enterprise and pitching your idea.<\/strong> You will learn how to discover your own business idea \u2013 one that is good for the community too \u2013 and how to present it. You pitch on the last day in front of a jury, and the best idea is supported with 450,000 Ugandan shillings to start the business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This programme is open <strong>exclusively to citizens of Kyakataama, Kabata, Kifuruka and Rwihamba<\/strong>. To apply, come in person and fill out the application form on site. If applicable, you may be invited for an interview.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The programme runs from 5 to 19 December 2025 at the Toonda Cultural Community Center, Monday to Saturday, 8:30 am to 12:30 pm. Sessions are led by Micheal Magambe, co-founder of YINNOH, and Alex Adiaka, co-founder of the Nyotalifeline micro-credit institution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Attendance is mandatory. The programme is completely free thanks to the support of Toonda and the facilitators. To keep it free, no meals are provided, but tea and water are available.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The cash award given to the winning project must be used solely to start implementing the winning idea and will be monitored by Toonda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large has-custom-border\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/smartkidsuganda.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/dark-green-orange-modern-student-traveler-travel-agency-promotion-poster.png\" alt=\"Poster announcing applications for the Toonda Innovation Lab\" style=\"border-radius:8px\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A two-week practical programme on self-discovery, social enterprise and pitching your idea, with 450,000 Ugandan shillings awarded to the best business idea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-impact"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toonda.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toonda.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toonda.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toonda.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toonda.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=618"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/toonda.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":685,"href":"https:\/\/toonda.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618\/revisions\/685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toonda.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toonda.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toonda.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}