Refugees Archives | Lifeline Energy https://www.lifelineenergy.org/category/refugees/ Educating | Informing | Illuminating Thu, 12 Dec 2024 12:39:51 +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 Refugees Archives | Lifeline Energy https://www.lifelineenergy.org/category/refugees/ 32 32 1 of 84 million: Sifa’s life of despair and displacement, resilience, courage and hope https://www.lifelineenergy.org/1-of-84-million-sifas-life-of-despair-and-displacement-resilience-courage-and-hope/ Mon, 20 Jun 2022 11:03:04 +0000 https://www.lifelineenergy.org/?p=13422 I met an extraordinary woman in the maily Congolese Rwamwanja Refugee Settlement in Western Uganda whose story has stayed with me ever since.

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]]> The boy who adopted me https://www.lifelineenergy.org/the-boy-who-adopted-me/ Thu, 13 May 2021 09:48:01 +0000 https://www.lifelineenergy.org/?p=13326 Like so many children in Rwanda at that time, this sweet adolescent boy was the head-of-his-household and responsible for raising his siblings on his own.

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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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]]> #RadioSavesLives: #CommunicationIsAid #Commisaid https://www.lifelineenergy.org/radio-saves-lives/ Thu, 11 Feb 2016 09:19:39 +0000 http://lifelineenergy.org/?p=5551 The post #RadioSavesLives: #CommunicationIsAid #Commisaid appeared first on Lifeline Energy.

]]> From Writing To A Hands-On Approach https://www.lifelineenergy.org/understanding-development-issues-has-made-me-a-better-journalist/ https://www.lifelineenergy.org/understanding-development-issues-has-made-me-a-better-journalist/#comments Wed, 28 Sep 2011 12:41:10 +0000 http://lifelineenergy.org/blog/?p=1614 By Stephanie Schmitt, intern at Lifeline Energy. My background is in journalism, mainly old-fashioned print […]

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]]> https://www.lifelineenergy.org/understanding-development-issues-has-made-me-a-better-journalist/feed/ 2 Women and Girl Refugees in Dadaab Tune into Radio in Big Numbers https://www.lifelineenergy.org/women_and_girls_refugees_tune_in/ Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:18:36 +0000 http://lifelineenergy.org/blog/?p=621 7:45 am – A convoy of 4×4 UNHCR vehicles, escorted by a Kenyan police patrol […]

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