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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...

What World Radio Day means to Tom Hanks Day

by Lifeline Energy | Feb 11, 2013 | Lifeplayer MP3, Power of radio, Tom Hanks Day

Kevin Turk, co-founder of Tom Hanks Day, for World Radio Day, 2013 Radio means a lot to a lot of different people. To some it is a source of enjoyment; to others it is their means to staying...

My Oh So Amazing Week in Zambia

by Lifeline Energy | Oct 11, 2012 | By Kristine Pearson, Children, Conservation, Education, Energy poverty, Social entrepreneurship, Zambia

DAY 1 – Energy poverty in your face (4 October) The BA flight from London touched down right on time at Kenneth Kaunda International Airport, just as the brilliant hot African sun was rising. ...

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...

Shining a Light on Rose

by Lifeline Energy | Apr 30, 2012 | Education, Energy poverty

Rose sits down to study on a worn out sofa in the corner of a tin shack at 7:00 pm each school night. After she’s helped with washing up and ensuring that the other 20 orphaned children she lives...

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

What World Radio Day means to Tom Hanks Day

Starting All Over Again in Zimbabwe

Shining a Light on Rose

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