Lifeline Energy

A mission-driven non-profit social enterprise, Lifeline Energy designs, manufactures and distributes solar-powered and wind-up MP3 players and radios for classroom and community listening. No one does what we do. Our technology goes where others can’t or don’t.

Imagine a school. One classroom. No electricity. Many children; all different ages. No trained teacher.

Then imagine a Lifeplayer MP3-radio, loaded with hundreds of hours of fun, interactive school lessons. Able to tune into the radio and directly record programmes.  Or record children’s voices. Powered by the sun.

Our media players and radios provide education access to children, teach mothers how give the best nutrition for the children, help farmers increase yields and deliver support to displaced families.

Our Values Underpin Everything We Do

Integrity
Integrity in daily action is the cornerstone upon which we judge ourselves and the yardstick against which we invite our stakeholders to measure us. Cultivating integrity begins within and builds outward to others. We value a climate of mutual trust in our own environment and with our stakeholders, with whom we share and exchange perspectives. When we share the stories of those we seek to serve, we do so with sensitivity, respect and dignity.

Excellence
Striving for excellence is a way of life. It inspires and sustains us in all that we do. We continually demand the best of ourselves in service delivery to all our stakeholders, externally and internally. A commitment to excellence requires that we:
● Respond urgently and vigorously to opportunity.
● Distribute the best quality products that are safe to use and environmentally clean.
● Develop enduring partnerships.
● Deliver effective and timely projects.
● Adopt rigorous standards of performance evaluation.

Innovation
We hold that the most complex and intractable problems – from poverty to environmental degradation – are capable of creative resolution. This impels us to seek opportunities to place innovative and clean technologies at the service of even the most remote, forgotten and disenfranchised sectors of society. We seek to approach entrenched and long-running problems with a fresh and original eye. We scan the environment constantly for novel and effective models of operation. We aspire to create new alliances across unlikely boundaries and in places where they may never have been found before.

Partnership
Partnerships lie at the heart of our work. We believe that lasting improvements in people’s lives come about when all those directly involved and affected by change are offered space for their voices to be heard, and access to a platform from which they can participate. We seek partners who share our goals and values, and with whom we can co-create vehicles for collective research, participative service delivery, joint evaluation and learning.
Internship Tasks:
Lifeline Energy handles design and graphics, website development and much more for several clients. The intern will learn client service and communicate directly with many clients. 
There would also be internet research for Lifeline Energy and compiling reports and spreadsheets. Interns would attend Zoom meetings with participants from all over the world. 

Requirements:
● Bachelor’s degree (completed/ongoing) in the design field, so knowledge of PowerPoint, InDesign or Affinity would be helpful, along with social media.
● Must have strong command of English.
● Be creative yet detail oriented and work with minimal supervision.
● An understanding of protocol is important.
● An ability to deal with complexity is useful.
● Interested in web development (an opportunity to support our creative director)
● Need to adapt to Central African Time in South Africa.
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Relations
Relations with Non-Governmental Organizations
Partner of: G-XJ7388 – 1% for the Planet. Affiliate member of: F-XJ8594 – Communicating with Disaster Affected Communities Network (CDAC Network).

Members
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