By Bhavna Malkani | Digital Fundraising and Marketing Manager
Sonia, 14 received a wind-up and solar-powered Lifelight thanks to your support. She lives in a small, two-roomed traditional mud and thatch house. Sonia became the head of her household last September when her mother died of TB. Her also father passed away August. Sonia looks after her two year old sister, Salah.
Sonia uses the Lifelight to make schoolwork revisions in her cramped sitting room which is no more than a meter wide and two meters long. Since having her light, Sonia says that she can study inside day or night and feels much safer as she can see predators like spiders and rats when making her bed. She also uses the light to walk safely to her grandmother’s house 100 metres away. Sonia told us that the light has become her ‘guardian protector’.
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FREEPLAY FOUNDATION IS NOW KNOWN AS LIFELINE ENERGY: We are delighted to announce that from April our new name is Lifeline Energy.
Operating as Freeplay Foundation has served us well for the past 11 years, however, we feel that our new name better reflects our wider mission to tackle energy poverty head-on for the poorest and most vulnerable.
In addition to including Lifeline radios and Lifelights in projects and programs, in the near future Lifeline Energy will launch a brand new, revolutionary communications tool that we believe will have a profound impact on education and information access in the developing world. We will send you more news about this soon.
We will continue to focus our research on the impact of dangerous kerosene, firewood and candles, and the harmful effects these have on vulnerable women and children. This better equips us to create clean energy products and to advocate approaches that reduce their use and improve quality of life.
Lifeline Energy remains a 501 (c)(3) registered charity in the USA, a registered charity in the UK and is a Section 18A and 21 non-profit in South Africa.Please visit our redesigned website and learn more about Lifeline Energy; www.lifelineenergy.org. All email addresses that were formerly @freeplayfoundation.org will now be @lifelineenergy.org.
Thank you for your continued support.
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