Lifeline Energy Archives | Lifeline Energy https://www.lifelineenergy.org/tag/freeplay-foundation/ 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 Lifeline Energy Archives | Lifeline Energy https://www.lifelineenergy.org/tag/freeplay-foundation/ 32 32 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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]]> Who Would Have Imagined Rwanda 25 Years On? https://www.lifelineenergy.org/imagined-rwanda-25-years-on/ Tue, 10 May 2016 08:02:42 +0000 http://lifelineenergy.org/?p=5681 World headlines fixated on one event – the culmination of the long march to democracy in South Africa and the inauguration of Nelson Mandela. As Western media seem to feature one African story at a time, another African event was a footnote: an ‘African tribal war’ in a country not many had heard of.

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]]> 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

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]]> 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 “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 […]

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]]> 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.

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]]> https://www.lifelineenergy.org/kerosene-burning-issue-human-rights-womens/feed/ 2 Lifeplayer Debuts in Bulenga, Uganda https://www.lifelineenergy.org/lifeplayer-mp3-debuts-in-bulenga-uganda/ Wed, 19 Mar 2014 12:26:15 +0000 http://lifelineenergy.org/?p=4641 by Sarah Baird. Seven miles from the center of Kampala, down a busy highway clogged […]

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]]> Watch Our Solar MP3 Player in Ethiopia https://www.lifelineenergy.org/new-video-of-our-lifeplayer-in-ethiopia/ Wed, 05 Mar 2014 15:02:28 +0000 http://lifelineenergy.org/?p=3463 An estimated 50,000 school children in Ethiopia now have the opportunity to learn English thanks […]

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]]> Haile’s Story: What the Learn English Radio Project Means to Teachers? https://www.lifelineenergy.org/hailes-story-what-the-learn-english-radio-project-means-to-teachers/ Tue, 25 Feb 2014 10:21:24 +0000 http://lifelineenergy.org/?p=4546 By Tsion Issaya, Communications Manager, British Council Ethiopia | HaileMeet 60 year old Haile Berhe. For more than half his life, he has worked as an English teacher. Born and raised in a small town in Tigray regional state.

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]]> The Joy of Watching Radio Learners – For the First Time https://www.lifelineenergy.org/the-joy-of-watching-radio-learners-for-the-first-time/ Thu, 20 Feb 2014 12:41:06 +0000 http://lifelineenergy.org/?p=4527 Eighty-four Grade 1 students in blue and white uniforms, sat scrunched close together on hard […]

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