Freeplay Foundation

Mission

The Freeplay Foundation is unlike any other nonprofit humanitarian organization in the world. Our sole mission is to provide radio information and education to the poorest of the poor via self-powered radios. Using patented wind-up technology and solar power, Freeplay Lifeline radios do not require batteries or electricity. We provide people with sustained access to vital, even life-saving radio broadcasts that address issues including education, health, disaster response, and peacemaking.

Programs

The Freeplay Foundation’s work cuts across most aid sectors, including education, health and HIV/AIDS, agriculture, democracy & governance, disaster relief, and the environment. Some sample projects from 2005 include: radio education for 52,000 child workers in Tanzania; distributing almost 8,000 more Lifeline radios to orphans in Rwanda, and providing 1,250 Lifeline radios to victims of the tsunami. We focus on children and women, the most vulnerable people in the world.

Current Projects on GlobalGiving

Rwanda Radio Project for Orphans

Personnel Overview

Midi Berry - Senior Development Consultant, Freeplay Foundation
Midi Berry has worked in international development since the 1980's and in countries of sub-Saharan Africa since the early nineties. Raises funds & develops Freeplay Foundation projects for Lifeline radio communications and Weza energy micro-enterprises. Architected a five-partner Rwanda energy micro-enterprise project that won the World Bank's 2006 Development Marketplace competition.

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,
Executive Director
Founded in 1998
Employees: 10
Volunteers: 0