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		<title>Radio, “my most trusted friend”</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Kristine Pearson in honour of World Radio Day When I set-up Lifeline Energy (or Freeplay Foundation as it was known then) in January 1999 I was tasked with finding ways to get the first model hand-crank radios to rural Africans who didn’t have listening access. Although I had travelled widely across Africa, admittedly I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Video didn&#8217;t kill the radio star: Thoughts from an Irishman in Rwanda</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Written by Frank Reidy, a radio journalist and former Irish Army Major, in honour of World Radio Day. Video certainly did not kill the radio star and the much vaunted demise of radio has just not happened.  Indeed radio, like cinema has flourished after the initial onslaught of television in the early sixties.  New media [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lifelineenergy.org/blog/2012/01/video-certainly-did-not-kill-the-radio-star-thoughts-from-an-irishman-in-rwanda/</link>
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		<title>I’ve never looked back – my 24 years in Africa</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Kristine Pearson When I immigrated to South Africa from America in January 1989, South African President PW Botha hadn’t yet suffered the stroke that catapulted FW de Klerk to power. George Bush Sr was sworn in as America’s 41st president and President Michael Gorbachov led what was called the USSR.  Civil wars ripped apart [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lifelineenergy.org/blog/2012/01/i%e2%80%99ve-never-looked-back-%e2%80%93-my-24-years-in-africa/</link>
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		<title>Kerosene, a burning issue in women&#8217;s rights, human rights</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Kristine Pearson CEO, Lifeline Energy                                                                                                 This [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lifelineenergy.org/blog/2011/10/kerosene-a-burning-issue-in-human-rights/</link>
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		<title>From Writing To A Hands-On Approach</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Stephanie Schmitt, intern at Lifeline Energy My background is in journalism, mainly old-fashioned print and magazines, and for the last two years I’ve been working online. In my journalism course we discussed journalism of attachment and compassion fatigue, all having read reports of journalists getting too involved, saving orphans in the midst of war [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lifelineenergy.org/blog/2011/09/understanding-development-issues-has-made-me-a-better-journalist/</link>
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		<title>Energy Poverty, Kerosene and Lifeline Energy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Yannick Vuylsteke, intern at Lifeline Energy I started interning at Lifeline Energy in May, after completing my Masters at SOAS. Having grown up in Africa and as the son of parents working in development, I thought that I had a pretty good grasp of what to expect and the issues I’d be working with, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lifelineenergy.org/blog/2011/09/energy-poverty-kerosene-and-lifeline-energy/</link>
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		<title>What grad school doesn&#8217;t teach you</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Erin Roberts, intern at Lifeline Energy I’ve been interning at Lifeline Energy for three months and so far it’s been an incredible learning experience.  I’ve learned more about how development occurs on the ground in two months than I did in a year of graduate school.  When I first started, I knew that much [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lifelineenergy.org/blog/2011/09/the-power-of-radio-and-light-in-gender-discrimination/</link>
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		<title>The power of community radio in the Internet age</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Birgitte Jallov, founder of EMPOWERHOUSE. Cholera outbreaks were a recurring problem in Dondo, Central Mozambique, resulting in 200 painful deaths each year. Once the community radio station started broadcasting health programmes in Sena and Ndau, the local languages, people understood how they got ill and changed their behaviour. The next year no one in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lifelineenergy.org/blog/2011/09/the-power-of-community-radio-in-the-internet-age/</link>
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		<title>How the Lifeplayer came about</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Kristine Pearson Our Lifeplayer is a finalist in the INDEX: Design to Improve Life Awards. We’re honoured to be a finalist (in one of five categories) out of nearly 1000 global entries.  INDEX: is the world’s top award for designs that address humanity&#8217;s biggest challenges. For Lifeline Energy that challenge is delivering information and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lifelineenergy.org/blog/2011/06/how-the-lifeplayer-came-about/</link>
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		<title>Enabling Students to Study Safely</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Project manager Chhavi Sharma distributes lights to students in Nairobi slum Little Bees School is run by Mama Lucy Odipo in Starehe, a densely populated section of Nairobi&#8217;s Mathare Valley slum. Lifeline Energy has been working there for more than three years. Kristine Pearson, Lifeline Energy&#8217;s CEO, and I were there to distribute solar-powered and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lifelineenergy.org/blog/2011/05/international-tom-hanks-day-provides-22-lifelights-to-children-at-little-bees-school/</link>
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