Water is Life. But What Kind of Life?
You know the picture I’m talking about. You might have seen it in National Geographic. That one with the African woman serenely carrying a bucket of water on her head. Colourfully dressed; perfectly...
#RadioSavesLives: Radio When Disaster Strikes
Survivors of humanitarian crises are forced to leave their homes with little more than the clothes on their backs. That’s true for Syrians escaping conflict, for families fleeing to a shelter...
Charcoal Children: Danger in Lusaka’s Compounds
When I returned to my Lusaka hotel room I looked like I had been dipped in charcoal dust. Although it was an inconvenience, the grime could be scrubbed off. But what I found hard to ‘wash-off’ was...
“I May be Blind, But this Radio Allows me to See Again.”
Our First Meeting, Her First Radio I first met Senkeiyan two days after the attack at Nairobi’s Westgate Mall. We were in the Great Rift Valley distributing Prime radios to rural classrooms....
Kerosene – A Burning Issue in Women’s Rights, Human Rights
Like many girls I’ve met in Africa, Rose’s dream is to become a teacher. The shy grade 6 student revises her homework at a rickety table in a tin shack in a Nairobi slum. A kerosene lamp fashioned...
The Difference a Little Bit of Energy Makes
By Kathleen Buchholz in Lusaka “I don’t buy candles anymore; I use the light to study more than I did before.” This statement made by Wilbroad Banda, a teacher and student from the Garden compound...
