Kristine Pearson Archives | Lifeline Energy https://www.lifelineenergy.org/tag/kristine-pearson/ 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 Kristine Pearson Archives | Lifeline Energy https://www.lifelineenergy.org/tag/kristine-pearson/ 32 32 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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]]> Why I Keep Giving to Lifeline Energy https://www.lifelineenergy.org/tom-hanks-giving-lifeline-energy/ Mon, 21 Aug 2017 10:34:20 +0000 http://lifelineenergy.org/?p=7578 If you told me on April Fool’s Day 2004 that a simple joke would result in me traveling to Zambia in Southern Africa, I would have said, “The joke’s on you pal”. But sometimes, life takes you down unexpected paths.

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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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]]> 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 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 A Teacher who Provides more than Just an Education https://www.lifelineenergy.org/a-teacher-who-provides-more-than-just-an-educuation/ Tue, 04 Mar 2014 14:49:33 +0000 http://lifelineenergy.org/?p=4567 The second teacher we’re profiling in our #teachertuesday series is our old friend, Mwenya Mvula. […]

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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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]]> In Kenya the Power of Information Depends on – Power https://www.lifelineenergy.org/in-kenya-the-power-of-information-depends-on-power/ Sat, 28 Sep 2013 15:40:34 +0000 http://lifelineenergy.org/?p=4073 Over the weekend I glanced at Twitter on my iPhone. I then switched over to […]

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