SOCIAL MEDIA FOR SOCIAL GOOD TRAINING RAISED $512.96 FOR LIFELINE’S WORK IN KENYA
On 19th January 2012, author Heather Mansfield of DIOSA Communications and the International Lifeline Fund hosted a social media and mobile technology how-to training seminar at Lifeline’s HQ. Attended by nearly 40 nonprofit staff in and around Washington DC, the intensive one-day crash course gave attendees comprehensive strategy and practical knowledge on how to successfully [...]
Join Lifeline at L2 Lounge – January 25th 2012
Join us next Wednesday, January 25th at L2 Lounge for an evening of photography, live music, food and drink, old friends and new. All proceeds will go directly toward providing clean water to a community in Northern Uganda. Our goal for this event is to help bring clean drinking water to 800 people in need. [...]
Motivation in the Field: Dadaab
What is unique about International Lifeline Fund? I have been asking myself this question since I joined ILF in May 2011. Compared to the 25 other NGO’s operating in Dadaab, there is a special trait embedded in the organization’s core that motivates me to work for ILF over the rest. My thoughts then wandered to [...]
From Emergency to Development, From Devastation to Beauty: Haiti Today
In a way, I always knew that I would come to Haiti. With half my family being from Haiti, I grew up listening to stories – both good and bad – of Haiti, its people, culture and traditions. I grew up with colorful images of Haiti – with its green mountains, beautiful beaches and numerous [...]
The Latest on Lifeline’s Rural Stove Project in Uganda
As I sit on the guesthouse veranda, listening to the neighborhood children play on a Sunday afternoon, I reflect on my first month in Northern Uganda. Since embarking on this new chapter in my life as the Program Manager in Lira for International Lifeline Fund (ILF), several interesting experience comes to mind. However, one such [...]
Joy Amongst Adversity: A Mother and Daughter Reunited by Drought
Due to the worst drought in 60 years, a mother and a daughter were reunited after 20 years of separation. Maryan Mohamed Dakane, a 33-year-old senior stove maker in Ifo camp (one of four camps in the Dadaab refugee complex) has been working for ILF since 2009. On Aug 1st, 2011, Maryan asked me if [...]
Leading by Example
Recently, the International Lifeline Fund team in Uganda and one of its community-based Water User Committees (WUC) in Lira, were unknowingly put to the test. Triple S-Uganda, Sustainable Services at Scale, asked the respective organizations in Lira to report on the good practices in place at their water sources. The ILF sanitation team put together [...]
Is Discomfort With Cultural Difference Preventing the Development Sector From Doing Its Job?
Over the course of the last week #StopChildMarriage has been trending on Lifeline’s twitter account, no doubt because we mostly follow other NGOs, charities, international agencies, etc. Today one tweet made me stop and think about what is really driving this trend, and to a greater extent, development work as a whole. The tweet read, [...]