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Radio – My First Source of Inspiration

Radio – My First Source of Inspiration

by Guest Contributor | Feb 10, 2020 | Community Radio, Power of radio, Sierra Leone

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.

Why Tom Hanks Day Co-founder Continues His Support

Why Tom Hanks Day Co-founder Continues His Support

by Guest Contributor | Dec 20, 2018 | Africa, Kenya, News, Partner blog, Tom Hanks Day, Why I give

I never imagined a point in my life where I would have the ability to travel across the globe and speak with organizations affecting people’s lives at such a profound level. Yet, that’s exactly where I found myself this past July…

Farm Radio International Guest Blog: Farmers and Lifeplayer MP3s

Farm Radio International Guest Blog: Farmers and Lifeplayer MP3s

by Guest Contributor | Oct 2, 2018 | Agriculture, Community Radio, Farming, Lifeplayer MP3, Partner blog, Power of radio

By Steph Stroud, Farm Radio International | At Farm Radio International, we understand the power of radio. We use radio broadcasts to inform, discuss, exchange ideas, investigate and learn.

Why I Keep Giving to Lifeline Energy

Why I Keep Giving to Lifeline Energy

by Guest Contributor | Aug 21, 2017 | Partner blog, Tom Hanks Day, Why I give, Zambia

If you told me on April Fool’s Day 2004 that a simple joke would result in me traveling to Zambia in Southern Africa, I would have said, “The joke’s on you pal”. But sometimes, life takes you down unexpected paths.

Voice of an Expert: Prime Radios and Sustainable Farming

Voice of an Expert: Prime Radios and Sustainable Farming

by Guest Contributor | Jul 3, 2016 | Agriculture, COMACO, Partner blog, Power of radio, Zambia

During the rainy season, most parts of Luangwa Valley in eastern Zambia cannot be reached by government extension worker. There are too many streams between the villages and Nsefu where he lives. These streams overflow the low bridges and the water is infested with crocodiles.

Why I Give to Lifeline Energy #WRD

Why I Give to Lifeline Energy #WRD

by Guest Contributor | Mar 28, 2016 | Education, Why I give, Zambia

When my mother died in 2006, she left me some money ̶ not a life-changing amount, but enough to think about. If you have enough money to stay afloat, I find the most fun you can have with money is throwing it at things that matter

Haile’s Story: What the Learn English Radio Project Means to Teachers?

Haile’s Story: What the Learn English Radio Project Means to Teachers?

by Guest Contributor | Feb 25, 2014 | African progress, Education, Lifeplayer MP3

By Tsion Issaya, Communications Manager, British Council Ethiopia | HaileMeet 60 year old Haile Berhe. For more than half his life, he has worked as an English teacher. Born and raised in a small town in Tigray regional state.

Why Kenya’s School Laptops Programme is Not the Answer

Why Kenya’s School Laptops Programme is Not the Answer

by Guest Contributor | Jan 19, 2014 | Children, Education, Kenya

This blog originally appeared in ONE. The Kenyan government is delivering on an election promise and has awarded a supply contract for 1.2 million laptops to be given to first year primary school...
The Difference a Little Bit of Energy Makes

The Difference a Little Bit of Energy Makes

by Guest Contributor | Dec 19, 2013 | Education, Energy poverty, Intern perspectives, Justice, Zambia

For those without electricity, buying candles is a daily challenge. The typical family burns through two candles a day, with each candle lasting only two hours and lighting less than half of a small room.

Radio Without Broadcasting: Hope for the Unschooled

Radio Without Broadcasting: Hope for the Unschooled

by Guest Contributor | Aug 18, 2013 | Education, Partner blog, Radio school, Zambia

By Dr. Emile McAnany, Senior Research Advisor for the Center for Science Technology and Society, Santa Clara University. Zambia is one of the poorer countries in Africa, but it is a country with...
The Dark Side of Education

The Dark Side of Education

by Guest Contributor | Aug 9, 2013 | Education, Energy poverty

Phil Goodwin writes about the dark relationship between energy access and education.

A Response: From Nyamata to New York

A Response: From Nyamata to New York

by Guest Contributor | Jun 12, 2013 | Children, Rwanda

By Frank Reidy, former Country Director of Refugee International Trust. This is a comment in response to Kristine Pearson’s blog about Rwandan head-of-household, Jonathan Macumi.  Their faces...
The Tale of Zambian Trees

The Tale of Zambian Trees

by Guest Contributor | May 29, 2013 | Agriculture, Conservation, Education, Energy poverty, Zambia

By Jack Bird. “Its just so…painful,” Boniface said as he pulled the motorcycle over on the side of the road. It was an understatement to say the least. Boniface, my agro-forestry mentor and...
Radio is Still Relevant

Radio is Still Relevant

by Guest Contributor | Feb 12, 2013 | Energy poverty, Power of radio

Hannah Fitt, Director of The SAFE Foundation, and Habbiba Mackintosh, a volunteer at SAFE, for World Radio Day, 2013 Back in 2010 we were working in India in the scrub jungle of Tamil Nadu. It ‘s a...
A Radio Station Lives on Because of their Dedicated Listeners

A Radio Station Lives on Because of their Dedicated Listeners

by Guest Contributor | Feb 12, 2013 | Power of radio, South Africa

Karen du Toit, Afrikaans Archivist in the SABC Radio Archives, for World Radio Day, 2013 Springbok Radio, a former radio station of the South African Broadcasting Corporation in South Africa, closed...
Building an Open Platform for Radio Reporting in West Africa

Building an Open Platform for Radio Reporting in West Africa

by Guest Contributor | Feb 8, 2013 | African progress, Community Radio, Power of radio

Adam Thomas of Sourcefabric for World Radio Day, 2013 “There are conflicting accounts of the turn of events on the diplomatic front in the long-running Ivorian standoff, with reports that embattled...
The Many Sounds of Radio

The Many Sounds of Radio

by Guest Contributor | Feb 6, 2013 | Emergencies, Power of radio

Mary Myers for World Radio Day, 2013 My love of radio started in Mali in the early 1990’s in a small community station in Douentza in the arid Sahel, not far from Mopti.  Radio Douentza was one of...
Video Didn’t Kill the Radio Star: Thoughts from an Irishman in Rwanda

Video Didn’t Kill the Radio Star: Thoughts from an Irishman in Rwanda

by Guest Contributor | Jan 25, 2012 | Power of radio, Rwanda

Written by Frank Reidy, a radio journalist and former Irish Army Major, in honour of World Radio Day. Video certainly did not kill the radio star and the much vaunted demise of radio has just not...
The Power of Community Radio in the Internet Age

The Power of Community Radio in the Internet Age

by Guest Contributor | Sep 9, 2011 | Community Radio, Gender

By Birgitte Jallov, founder of EMPOWERHOUSE. Cholera outbreaks were a recurring problem in Dondo, Central Mozambique, resulting in 200 painful deaths each year. Once the community radio station...

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