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From radio school student to tech pioneer

Lifeline Energy Team — Thu, 25 Jul 2024 08:39:37 +0000

Cephas never forgot his humble beginnings, learning to read and write under the shade of a fig tree, with the wind-up radio as his daily companion and guide.

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25,000 Radio-Lights Excite School Children in Sierra Leone

Lifeline Energy Team — Fri, 31 Jul 2020 14:35:28 +0000

We are thrilled to see our 25,000 Fenix radio-lights being distributed to school children in Sierra Leone. As children remain in lockdown, the radios enable students to listen to school lessons which are aligned with the national curriculum.

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Teachers Can Now Have a “Second Voice”

Kristine Pearson — Sat, 18 Aug 2018 04:12:02 +0000

It’s one thing to hear about classrooms with 200 students, but it’s another to visit one. While at Kakuma Refugee Camp we spent time in a Grade 3 classroom packed with 200 students. There wasn’t so much as a chair or brick for them to sit on. all of Kakuma’s 24 primary schools are overcrowded.

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Leaving Their Past Behind – My Work With Refugees

Kristine Pearson — Wed, 20 Jun 2018 10:53:47 +0000

Education provides a way to help to rebuild a refugee child’s life through normalising social interaction and gaining knowledge and skills. We believe our power-independent Lifeplayers have an important role to play in providing education and information when it’s needed most.

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Speak Up in South Sudan – AET’s Case for Lifeplayers

Kristine Pearson — Fri, 06 Oct 2017 11:22:11 +0000

By Jonathan Coxall | Africa Educational Trust (AET) is partnering with Lifeline Energy to deliver Speak Up, a radio-based English language course for youth and adults in 130 rural communities in South Sudan.

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Why I Give to Lifeline Energy #WRD

Guest Contributor — Mon, 28 Mar 2016 09:16:32 +0000

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

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One Lifeplayer and 35 Special Children in Uganda

Lifeline Energy — Fri, 05 Feb 2016 11:34:12 +0000

Angel’s Center in Kampala, Uganda is a small school with an enormous heart. A heart […]

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When Hope Means a Radio School

Lifeline Energy — Mon, 30 Nov 2015 12:12:27 +0000

When you peer into a Grade 2 classroom, you expect to see little children sitting […]

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Lifeplayer in a Cape Town Township School

Lifeline Energy — Thu, 15 Oct 2015 13:19:20 +0000

Imbasa Primary, a government school, lies at the heart of the high density township of Old Crossroads. It’s just 20 minutes from the skyscrapers of Cape Town’s city centre.

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The Lifeplayer Goes Live in Cape Town Township

Lifeline Energy — Fri, 08 May 2015 05:31:32 +0000

Crossroads is a sprawling township within view of Cape Town International Airport. The contrast between […]

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