My name is Ebla and I have been living in Hagadera camp in Dadaab since 1992. I joined ILF’s rocket stove project in 2008 and I work primarily as a stove maker. I tie the bricks and do the mudding of the stoves. I also help out with the monitoring and assessment activities in the blocks. Sadly, [...]
This past December, I traveled to Uganda and Kenya for three weeks to assess the progress of our programs. It was my first visit in nearly 18 months. I wasn’t sure exactly what to expect. This was my longest absence from the field since Lifeline had launched operations in 2006. Perhaps I should stay away [...]
March 15th 2010 at 9:00am was my first day to start work with ILF as the Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) Program Manager in Lira Uganda. I entered into office and there was no one to hand the program over to me. I did not know anybody and I did not have anything to start [...]
Take the time to watch this truly moving and beautiful video from ILF’s Brian Martin. In it you will see firsthand the process, and ultimate joy, of providing access to a clean water source in Northern Uganda. Brian first began his work with ILF in Uganda and is currently in Haiti designing a new stove prototype for ILF’s [...]
ILF is extremely excited to be featured in Good Magazine’s series about energy and the environment! You can find the article here. Please feel free to tweet, blog, facebook, e-mail, and generally share this great article with your friends, family, and coworkers. More information about our work in Haiti, Kenya, and Uganda can be found [...]
My name is Evens Jean Baptiste and I am an economist and actor by trade. Before the earthquake I worked in my community but I didn’t have the opportunity to live and to understand the situation of the poorest people. Evans and ILF Director of Program Development Hoi Trinh with one of the stove monitors [...]
The Forbes Corporate Social Responsibility blog highlights ILF’s work in Haiti: http://blogs.forbes.com/csr/2010/12/13/cleaner-cookstoves-for-christmas/ Give a clean cook stove for Christmas by donating now at http://www.lifelinefund.org/
My name is Abdi Ma’alim. I’m quite new to ILF, I only joined this project here in Hagadera camp in January 2010. I’m 27 years old, and fled Somalia with my parents when I was just 7 years old. So I have pretty much grown up in this camp. I’m a stove monitor for ILF. I go [...]
My first two weeks in Haiti have been informative and compelling. The people are beautiful and the language is both familiar and distant: the familiar romance of French intertwined and sharply contrasted by the distant rhythms of Africa. Haiti seems to be a country like many equatorial countries: full of contradictions. And with the elections approaching those contradictions are [...]
After a fifteen minute drive through rural farmland, the dirt roads narrowing at every turn – as if the natural landscape is willfully reasserting itself in advance of our 4×4 pick-up – we arrive at our destination. The homestead of Rose Ojok, Local Council Chairwoman for Omito Parish, is well kept; a series of tidy thatched out-houses [...]