Zambia Archives | Lifeline Energy https://www.lifelineenergy.org/tag/zambia/ Educating | Informing | Illuminating Tue, 21 Mar 2023 10:46:56 +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 Zambia Archives | Lifeline Energy https://www.lifelineenergy.org/tag/zambia/ 32 32 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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]]> 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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]]> 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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]]> Why I Give to Lifeline Energy #WRD https://www.lifelineenergy.org/why-im-supporting-tom-hanks-day-on-april-2/ Mon, 28 Mar 2016 09:16:32 +0000 http://lifelineenergy.org/?p=5605 When my mother died in 2006, she left me some money ̶ not a life-changing amount, but enough to think about. If you have enough money to stay afloat, I find the most fun you can have with money is throwing it at things that matter

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]]> Charcoal Children: Danger in Lusaka’s Compounds https://www.lifelineenergy.org/charcoal-children-lusaka-compound/ Sun, 06 Dec 2015 13:17:01 +0000 http://lifelineenergy.org/?p=4183 When I returned to my Lusaka hotel room I looked like I had been dipped […]

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]]> When Hope Means a Radio School https://www.lifelineenergy.org/hope-means-radio-school/ Mon, 30 Nov 2015 12:12:27 +0000 http://lifelineenergy.org/?p=5512 When you peer into a Grade 2 classroom, you expect to see little children sitting […]

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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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]]> The Difference a Little Bit of Energy Makes https://www.lifelineenergy.org/the-difference-a-little-bit-of-energy-makes/ Thu, 19 Dec 2013 14:35:56 +0000 http://lifelineenergy.org/?p=4378 For those without electricity, buying candles is a daily challenge. The typical family burns through two candles a day, with each candle lasting only two hours and lighting less than half of a small room.

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]]> The Hidden Cost of Cell Phones https://www.lifelineenergy.org/the-hidden-cost-of-cellphones/ Fri, 04 Oct 2013 12:52:48 +0000 http://lifelineenergy.org/?p=4097 The World Bank estimates that there are 62 cell phones for every 100 people in Zambia. This week as I interviewed students, their families and the community school teachers of Luba Community School for my research project.

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]]> Great Expectations for Zambian Internship https://www.lifelineenergy.org/great-expectations-in-nairobi/ Thu, 26 Sep 2013 15:05:48 +0000 http://lifelineenergy.org/?p=4052 Great Expectations | By Kathleen Buchholz, in Nairobi. I arrived in Nairobi late Sunday night during the horrific terrorist attacks at the Westgate Shopping Centre. This wasn’t how I expected my arrival in Nairobi to be.

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