Lifeline Energy is a non-profit social enterprise that provides sustainable information and education access to vulnerable populations. We achieve this by designing, manufacturing and distributing solar and wind-up media players and radios for classroom and group listening. Since 1999, we have distributed more than 500,000 power independent radios to provide on-demand access to information and education, mainly in sub-Saharan Africa. Over the years we have received numerous awards including the Tech Museum of Innovation Award, a World Bank Development Marketplace Award and an Index: Design to Improve Life Award. In addition, our founder and CEO Kristine Pearson was named one of TIME magazi... read more Lifeline Energy is a non-profit social enterprise that provides sustainable information and education access to vulnerable populations. We achieve this by designing, manufacturing and distributing solar and wind-up media players and radios for classroom and group listening. Since 1999, we have distributed more than 500,000 power independent radios to provide on-demand access to information and education, mainly in sub-Saharan Africa. Over the years we have received numerous awards including the Tech Museum of Innovation Award, a World Bank Development Marketplace Award and an Index: Design to Improve Life Award. In addition, our founder and CEO Kristine Pearson was named one of TIME magazine's Heroes of the Environment for 2007 and received the James C. Morgan Global Humanitarian Award in 2005.
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By Agnes Torres | Project officer
The latest distribution of our Fenix solar and wind-up radios took place in Q4 2023. In collaboration with the Kenya Broadcasting Corporation (KBC), Kenya's national broadcaster, reports from... Read the full report ›By Agness Wambui | Field representative
In late September, we undertook six distributions of Lifeline Energy Fenix radio lights to benefit hundreds of rural Kenyan school girls and boys. We visited four far-flung schools in Narok... Read the full report ›By Kristine Pearson | CEO and Project Lead
Following-up directly with schoolgirls and their teachers is often challenging because the schools can be many miles from a town or even a tarred road. This year, we've been able to visit two rural... Read the full report ›