Power of radio Archives | Lifeline Energy https://www.lifelineenergy.org/category/power-of-radio/ Educating | Informing | Illuminating Thu, 25 Jul 2024 08:45:18 +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 Power of radio Archives | Lifeline Energy https://www.lifelineenergy.org/category/power-of-radio/ 32 32 From radio school student to tech pioneer https://www.lifelineenergy.org/from-radio-school-student-to-tech-pioneer/ Thu, 25 Jul 2024 08:39:37 +0000 https://www.lifelineenergy.org/?p=13729 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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]]> Tuning into Radio-Based Education Beyond COVID-19 https://www.lifelineenergy.org/tuning-into-radio-based-education-in-the-age-of-covid-19/ Wed, 13 May 2020 20:16:12 +0000 https://www.lifelineenergy.org/?p=12556 With COVID-19 disrupting education for billions of students across the globe, radio education has renewed importance as an effective, reliable and highly personal medium for fuelling learning.

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]]> Radio – My First Source of Inspiration https://www.lifelineenergy.org/radio-my-first-source-of-inspiration/ Mon, 10 Feb 2020 11:51:11 +0000 https://www.lifelineenergy.org/?p=12381 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.

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]]> Radio Voice Bank https://www.lifelineenergy.org/radio-voice-bank/ Thu, 23 Jan 2020 11:28:49 +0000 https://www.lifelineenergy.org/?p=12258 Radio Voice Bank will be an open source library of curated audio content for African listeners with limited access to information.

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]]> Farm Radio International Guest Blog: Farmers and Lifeplayer MP3s https://www.lifelineenergy.org/farm-radio-lifeplayers-increase-farmers-lifeplayers-mp3/ Tue, 02 Oct 2018 15:35:52 +0000 https://www.lifelineenergy.org/?p=10614 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.

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]]> Teachers Can Now Have a “Second Voice” https://www.lifelineenergy.org/help-for-teachers-in-overcrowded-classrooms/ Sat, 18 Aug 2018 04:12:02 +0000 https://www.lifelineenergy.org/?p=10364 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 https://www.lifelineenergy.org/leaving-their-past-behind-my-work-with-refugees/ Wed, 20 Jun 2018 10:53:47 +0000 http://lifelineenergy.org/?p=9767 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 https://www.lifelineenergy.org/aet-speakup-case-lifeplayers/ Fri, 06 Oct 2017 11:22:11 +0000 http://lifelineenergy.org/?p=8595 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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]]> A Cow Doesn’t Give Me Information: How Radio Played a Role for Children in Post-Genocide Rwanda https://www.lifelineenergy.org/cow-doesnt-give-me-information-radio-played-role-children-post-genocide-rwanda/ Tue, 04 Oct 2016 09:36:04 +0000 http://lifelineenergy.org/?p=4965 When asked if he had to choose between his wind-up radio or his cow, he didn’t hesitate. Fordward, an 18-year-old Rwandan head of household said, “I shall choose my radio, because a cow doesn’t give me information.”

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]]> Voice of an Expert: Prime Radios and Sustainable Farming https://www.lifelineenergy.org/prime-radios-sustainable-farming-zambia/ Sun, 03 Jul 2016 11:24:25 +0000 http://lifelineenergy.org/?p=5590 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.

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