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A Cow Doesn’t Give Me Information: How Radio Played a Role for Children in Post-Genocide Rwanda

by admin | Oct 4, 2016 | By Kristine Pearson, Children, Power of radio, Rwanda

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...

Who Would Have Imagined Rwanda 22 Years On?

by kristine | May 10, 2016 | African progress, By Kristine Pearson, Justice, Rwanda

During April and May 1994 world headlines fixated on one event – the culmination of the long march to democracy in South Africa and the inauguration of Nelson Mandela on 10 May. As Western media...

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...

From Nyamata to New York

by admin | Jul 22, 2013 | By Kristine Pearson, Energy poverty, Rwanda

In 2006, Tech Museum of Innovation Award Laureates were invited to the opening of the Nasdaq Stock Exchange in New York City. Just by chance I happened to be in town. Afterwards the group...