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Kerosene – A Burning Issue in Women’s Rights, Human Rights

by kristine | Oct 2, 2014 | By Kristine Pearson, Energy poverty, Gender, Health, Justice, Kenya

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...

Starting All Over Again in Zimbabwe

by Lifeline Energy | Jun 18, 2012 | Education, Lifeplayer MP3

Although they’re located just to the north of us in South Africa, I hadn’t been to Zimbabwe since 2003. Back then I was involved in providing our radios for a local language soap opera drama to help...

Radio – My Most Trusted Friend

by Lifeline Energy | Feb 2, 2012 | Children, Refugees, Rwanda

When I set-up Lifeline Energy (or Freeplay Foundation as it was known then) in January 1999 I was tasked with finding ways to get the first model hand-crank radios to rural Africans who didn’t...

Video Didn’t Kill the Radio Star: Thoughts from an Irishman in Rwanda

by Lifeline Energy | Jan 25, 2012 | Power of radio, Rwanda

Written by Frank Reidy, a radio journalist and former Irish Army Major, in honour of World Radio Day. Video certainly did not kill the radio star and the much vaunted demise of radio has just not...

From Writing To A Hands-On Approach

by Lifeline Energy | Sep 28, 2011 | Intern perspectives, Refugees

By Stephanie Schmitt, intern at Lifeline Energy My background is in journalism, mainly old-fashioned print and magazines, and for the last two years I’ve been working online. In my journalism course...

Kerosene – A Burning Issue in Women’s Rights, Human Rights

Starting All Over Again in Zimbabwe

Radio – My Most Trusted Friend

Video Didn’t Kill the Radio Star: Thoughts from an Irishman in Rwanda

From Writing To A Hands-On Approach

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