Gender Archives | Lifeline Energy https://www.lifelineenergy.org/category/gender/ Educating | Informing | Illuminating Mon, 12 Aug 2024 07:06:38 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://www.lifelineenergy.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/cropped-Lifeline-Energy-Logo-512-px-32x32.png Gender Archives | Lifeline Energy https://www.lifelineenergy.org/category/gender/ 32 32 An Unlikely Friendship: Remembering Feroza Adam – Activist and Treasured Friend https://www.lifelineenergy.org/remembering-feroza-adam-womens-activist-and-treasured-friend/ https://www.lifelineenergy.org/remembering-feroza-adam-womens-activist-and-treasured-friend/#comments Sat, 08 Aug 2015 09:00:37 +0000 http://lifelineenergy.org/blog/?p=2077 Kristine Pearson shares a deeply personal story of her friendship with South African women's leader and ANC activist, Feroza Adam

The post An Unlikely Friendship: Remembering Feroza Adam – Activist and Treasured Friend appeared first on Lifeline Energy.

]]> https://www.lifelineenergy.org/remembering-feroza-adam-womens-activist-and-treasured-friend/feed/ 5 When Tuaregs Exchanged Guns for Radios https://www.lifelineenergy.org/tuaregs-exchanged-guns-radios/ https://www.lifelineenergy.org/tuaregs-exchanged-guns-radios/#comments Sat, 11 Apr 2015 07:30:01 +0000 http://lifelineenergy.org/blog/?p=1954 The post When Tuaregs Exchanged Guns for Radios appeared first on Lifeline Energy.

]]> https://www.lifelineenergy.org/tuaregs-exchanged-guns-radios/feed/ 1 Shooting to Score, Not to Kill: International Woman’s Day Tribute https://www.lifelineenergy.org/shooting-to-score-not-to-kill-international-womens-day/ Sun, 08 Mar 2015 15:54:54 +0000 http://lifelineenergy.org/?p=5257 In Kenya’s remote Marsabit district near the Ethiopia border, girls face female genital mutilation (FGM), […]

The post Shooting to Score, Not to Kill: International Woman’s Day Tribute appeared first on Lifeline Energy.

]]> “I May be Blind, But this Radio Allows me to See Again.” https://www.lifelineenergy.org/maasai-blind-radio-see/ Thu, 12 Feb 2015 14:45:29 +0000 http://lifelineenergy.org/?p=5236 Our First Meeting, Her First Radio I first met Senkeiyan two days after the attack at […]

The post “I May be Blind, But this Radio Allows me to See Again.” appeared first on Lifeline Energy.

]]> Kerosene – A Burning Issue in Women’s Rights, Human Rights https://www.lifelineenergy.org/kerosene-burning-issue-human-rights-womens/ https://www.lifelineenergy.org/kerosene-burning-issue-human-rights-womens/#comments Thu, 02 Oct 2014 14:00:02 +0000 http://lifelineenergy.org/blog/?p=1451 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.

The post Kerosene – A Burning Issue in Women’s Rights, Human Rights appeared first on Lifeline Energy.

]]> https://www.lifelineenergy.org/kerosene-burning-issue-human-rights-womens/feed/ 2 Meeting Wives of a Sultan: a Story for International Women’s Day https://www.lifelineenergy.org/meeting-wives-of-a-sultan-a-story-for-international-womens-day/ Tue, 07 Jan 2014 11:56:57 +0000 http://lifelineenergy.org/?p=4624 For International Women’s Day, I am sharing a story I wrote in 2002 about six […]

The post Meeting Wives of a Sultan: a Story for International Women’s Day appeared first on Lifeline Energy.

]]> The Power of Community Radio in the Internet Age https://www.lifelineenergy.org/the-power-of-community-radio-in-the-internet-age/ https://www.lifelineenergy.org/the-power-of-community-radio-in-the-internet-age/#comments Fri, 09 Sep 2011 14:35:29 +0000 http://lifelineenergy.org/blog/?p=1529 By Birgitte Jallov, founder of EMPOWERHOUSE. Cholera outbreaks were a recurring problem in Dondo, Central […]

The post The Power of Community Radio in the Internet Age appeared first on Lifeline Energy.

]]> https://www.lifelineenergy.org/the-power-of-community-radio-in-the-internet-age/feed/ 1 Liberia – a First Visit https://www.lifelineenergy.org/liberia-a-first-visit/ https://www.lifelineenergy.org/liberia-a-first-visit/#comments Wed, 25 Aug 2010 13:59:54 +0000 http://lifelineenergy.org/blog/?p=1110 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...

The post Liberia – a First Visit appeared first on Lifeline Energy.

]]> https://www.lifelineenergy.org/liberia-a-first-visit/feed/ 2 The Wives of the Sultan https://www.lifelineenergy.org/sultanas-air-speak-kristine-pearson/ Wed, 10 Apr 2002 10:51:32 +0000 http://lifelineenergy.org/blog/?p=1951 Not only were they the first wives of a sultan I had ever met, I was the first person outside their family to ever meet with the Sultans of Air in Agadez.

The post The Wives of the Sultan appeared first on Lifeline Energy.

]]>