Guest blogs
How the Lifeplayer Came About
Our Lifeplayer is a finalist in the INDEX: Design to Improve Life Awards. We’re honoured to be a finalist (in one of five categories) out of nearly 1000 global entries. INDEX: is the world’s top award for designs that address humanity's biggest challenges. For...
Enabling Students to Study Safely
Little Bees School is run by Mama Lucy Odipo in Starehe, a densely populated section of Nairobi’s Mathare Valley slum. Lifeline Energy has been working there for more than three years.
Keeping Stock For Disasters
Access to information, light and basic energy in a humanitarian crisis can be just as essential as food, water, medical supplies and shelter. For the past 12 years, Lifeline Energy has been involved in several major humanitarian...
A Tribute to Victor – a Hero of the Starehe Slum
Kristine Pearson, CEO of Lifeline Energy, pays tribute to Victor Ochieng, the headmaster of Little Bees School in Kenya.
Radios for the Referendum in Southern Sudan
From late 2006 to 2008, Lifeline Energy shipped 265,000 of our solar and wind-up radios to South Sudan in support of a broad-based civic education initiative spearheaded by the National Democratic Institute (NDI).
Seeing Gladys Again after Four Years
Gladys Kadogomoses’ big blue radio works perfectly after more than four years of constant use by her and her ladies’ listening group. She told me with great affection what it had meant to her.
1,000 Radios Delivered to Haiti
Summary of our solar and wind-up radios delivered to Haiti following the earthquake.
The Lifeplayer Launches to the World!
It is such a gratifying feeling to see something that you’ve nurtured for so long come to life. Last week we successfully launched a tool that we truly believe will be a game-changer in educational access for millions in the developing world. This is first...
Ten Years with Lifeline Energy
Written by Michelle Riley. This weeks marks my 10th anniversary with Lifeline Energy, and what an exhilarating ride it has been! Back in 2000, we were using big, black radios with a spring crank. The organization, then known as the Freeplay Foundation, had only...
Liberia – a First Visit
I’ve been to nearly half of the countries in Africa, but this is my first visit to Liberia – the first African country to elect a female president, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf. Sitting in the window seat of an old Ethiopian Airways plane, I noticed a fleet of UN helicopters…