radio Archives | Lifeline Energy https://www.lifelineenergy.org/tag/radio/ Educating | Informing | Illuminating Thu, 12 Dec 2024 12:47:59 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 https://www.lifelineenergy.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/cropped-Lifeline-Energy-Logo-512-px-32x32.png radio Archives | Lifeline Energy https://www.lifelineenergy.org/tag/radio/ 32 32 Tom Hanks Day 2021 Highlights https://www.lifelineenergy.org/tom-hanks-day-2021-highlights/ Thu, 13 May 2021 09:05:03 +0000 https://www.lifelineenergy.org/?p=13311 The 18th annual Tom Hanks Day might have been a virtual event, but it sure was fun!

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]]> 25,000 Radio-Lights Excite School Children in Sierra Leone https://www.lifelineenergy.org/25000-radio-lights-delight-school-children-in-sierra-leone/ Fri, 31 Jul 2020 14:35:28 +0000 https://www.lifelineenergy.org/?p=12883 We are thrilled to see our 25,000 Fenix radio-lights being distributed to school children in Sierra Leone. As children remain in lockdown, the radios enable students to listen to school lessons which are aligned with the national curriculum.

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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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]]> Displaced in South Sudan – A Visit With Dignity https://www.lifelineenergy.org/south-sudan-2019-a-visit-with-dignity/ Mon, 26 Aug 2019 07:57:11 +0000 https://www.lifelineenergy.org/?p=12088 The post Displaced in South Sudan – A Visit With Dignity appeared first on Lifeline Energy.

]]> 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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]]> 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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]]> 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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]]> 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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