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Lifeline Energy

Lifeline Energy Logo Lifeline Energy
71 Gloucester Place
London, United Kingdom W1U 8JW
United Kingdom
+ 44 (207) 9355350
http://www.lifelineenergy.org

Mission

The multi-award winning Lifeline Energy is a humanitarian, not-for-profit organization improving the quality of the lives of vulnerable populations through dependable and environmentally friendly technologies. We are committed to providing renewable energy alternatives to those most in need. Our focus is women, girls, and the displaced.

Programs

Lifeline Energy's work cuts across many humanitarian aid sectors - education, disaster relief, health, agriculture, and environment. Sample projects include: distributing 15,000 solar & wind-up radios to child and widow-headed families in Rwanda; 24,500 Lifeline & Prime radios to Malawian schools reaching millions of students; solar & wind-up lights to Maasai women in Kenya; 1,000 radios to displaced communities in Haiti; solar panels that charge cell phones to rural Rwandan widow's cooperatives

Current Projects on GlobalGiving

Educate a Zambian child
Educate a Zambian child
Make an orphaned child the “Light of Your Life”
Make an orphaned child the “Light of Your Life”
Radio - the most important info source in Dadaab
Radio - the most important info source in Dadaab
Rwanda Radio Project for Orphans
Rwanda Radio Project for Orphans
Education for Kenyan children in hardship schools
Education for Kenyan children in hardship schools

Personnel Overview

Chhavi Sharma - Project Manager
Chhavi is a Project Manager at the Freeplay Foundation and brings a background in environment and development and children’s education to our Lifeline radio projects in Africa. With the Cambodian Child Protection and Saving Organisation in Phnom Penh she contributed to development of a children’s literacy and life skills programme.

Jean-Claude Gasana, - CARE Rwanda Operations Director
Jean-Claude Gasana, with CARE for 12 years, is a civil engineer, educated in Africa and the USA. He is CARE Rwanda Operations Director, in charge of its community based microfinance program and has managed in-country aspects of the Freeplay Foundation child-headed household self-powered radio project since September 2004

Personnel Statistics

Kristine Pearson,
CEO
Founded in 1998
Employees: 10
Volunteers: 0

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