Lifeline & Power-Blox Pitch Pay-As-You-Go Power in Humanitarian Grand Challenge
Lifeline was honored to be part of small group of humanitarians pitching big solutions to cap off the WFP’s Innovation Accelerator at the Humanitarian Grand Challenge Pitch event on October 29, 2020. Watch Lifeline’s Director of Business Development Igor Markov pitch a game-changing solution to bring more reliable power to conflict-affected populations through our partnership Read More
The Lifeline News Brief: October 24- 30
What We’ve Been Reading This Week: The Latest In Clean Cooking And Renewable Energy Innovation, Clean Water And Sanitation, Sustainable Development And Much More.  Anthropologists Examine Prevalence of Injuries Caused by Water Fetching Global research on water has largely revolved around issues of scarcity and heath, but the risks associated with how water is collected and Read More
It's Time to Decolonize Development
This summer, the police brutality against Black people sparked a global antiracism movement in response to centuries of systematic racism rooted in European colonization of the Americas, Africa and much of Asia. It is important for development actors to recognize their role within racialized systems of inequality – including what they do to sustain these Read More
It’s Time to Decolonize Development
This summer, the police brutality against Black people sparked a global antiracism movement in response to centuries of systematic racism rooted in European colonization of the Americas, Africa and much of Asia. It is important for development actors to recognize their role within racialized systems of inequality – including what they do to sustain these Read More
Carbonsink and Lifeline Launch Carbon Credit Program For Clean Cooking Technology
New Partnership Will Exponentially Scale Energy Efficient Cookstove Production in Uganda KAMPALA/FLORENCE October 16, 2020 – Carbonsink and International Lifeline Fund (Lifeline) announced a partnership to boost the impact of energy efficient cookstove technologies in Uganda and beyond. As one of the two largest manufacturers in Uganda, Lifeline’s EcoEnergy enterprise will now gain carbon credits Read More
The Lifeline News Brief: Oct 3 – 9
What We’ve Been Reading This Week: The Latest In Clean Cooking And Renewable Energy Innovation, Clean Water And Sanitation, Sustainable Development And Much More.  UN’s World Food Programme Wins Nobel Peace Prize The WFP has won the 2020 Nobel peace prize for its efforts to combat hunger and to improve conditions for peace in conflict areas.
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Introducing Erin
I first learned about how to use engineering to meet the needs of those oftentimes underrepresented in the world of design in 2014 through my university’s Engineers in Technical Humanitarian Opportunities of Service (ETHOS) Learning Center. Before this point, I had questioned whether engineering was the right path for me but discovering the world of Read More
The Lifeline News Brief: September 19 -25
What We’ve Been Reading This Week: The Latest In Clean Cooking And Renewable Energy Innovation, Clean Water And Sanitation, Sustainable Development And Much More.  Harnessing COVID-19’s digital dividend to finance the Sustainable Development Goals Digital is presenting clear opportunities in the wake of the COVID crisis, as hundreds of millions of people have migrated to the Read More