Guest blogs
Tom Hanks Day 2020
Tom Hanks Day won't be going according to the original plan* this year, because of COVID-19 social distancing. That doesn't mean, however, that Hanks fans can't come together to have fun virtually. The Tom Hanks Day organisers announced this week that "We will be...
Radio – My First Source of Inspiration
by Sajor Barry | Growing up in the slums of Freetown, Sierra Leone was like hell on earth. I was born and raised next to the Atlantic Ocean in Kroo Bay, one of the poorest, most densely populated and neglected communities in Freetown.
Radio Voice Bank
Radio Voice Bank will be an open source library of curated audio content for African listeners with limited access to information.
Proud Founding Member of Catalyst 2030
Lifeline Energy is proud to be a founding member of the Catalyst 2030 - global movement of social innovators to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SGDs). Its aim is to build a broad, self-organising movement of social enterprises, NGOs, funders and other...
Kristine Pearson honoured with AWIEF Lifetime Achievement Award
The Africa Women Innovation and Entrepreneurship Forum (AWIEF) honoured our CEO and Founder Kristine Pearson with the 2019 AWIEF Lifetime Achievement Award, in recognition of her body of work spanning 20 years. AWIEF annually recognise, honour and celebrate Women...
Radio-lights Distributed to Cyclone Survivors
We want to thank our extremely generous Tom Hanks Day supporters yet again. This time we're thanking those who donated to the survivors of the cyclones and flooding that devastated parts of Mozambique earlier in the year. For the first time in recorded history,...
Displaced in South Sudan – A Visit With Dignity
It’s a place incompatible with human dignity. Some of the worst living conditions I've ever seen were in a crowded internally displaced persons (IDP) camp in Juba, South Sudan. The residents lost their cattle and land more than 20 years ago in the civil wars that...
Tom Hanks Day 2019 Sends Radios to Cyclone Survivors
It started on April Fool’s Day, 16 years ago, with a bunch of students watching Tom Hanks movies on a double decker couch in Kalamazoo. (I know right?!) They enjoyed the day so much, they did it every year after that
Try not to sprain your ankle in Ethiopia – Highlights of 20 years working in Africa
A few years ago while photographing Speckled Mousebirds of my hotel in Addis Ababa, I fell and sprained my ankle. No doubt aided by the altitude, it was swollen and sore, but I didn’t think it required medical attention. I investigated renting crutches, but no option...
Our Best Tips and Ideas for Work Travel in Africa
During my 20 year tenure at Lifeline Energy, I’ve travelled to 31 of Africa’s 54 countries. This has meant sleeping up to a third of any year on a mattress that I didn’t buy. And plenty of nights where that mattress wasn’t exactly a Sealy-Posturepedic. These include a house without windows or doors in the Sahara Desert…