Indonesia
HealthFreeplay Foundation - Radios to Support Tsunami Survivors in Indonesia
Address
Freeplay Foundation
71 Gloucester Place
London,
United Kingdom
W1U 8JW
United Kingdom
+ 44 (0) 207 935 53
http://www.freeplayfoundation.org
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.
Freeplay Foundation's Current Projects on GlobalGiving
 Make an orphaned child the “Light of Your Life” |
 Rwanda Radio Project for Orphans |
Freeplay Foundation's Funded Projects on GlobalGiving
Personnel Overview
Midi Berry - Senior Development Consultant, Freeplay Foundation
Midi works out of Los Angeles and heads the fundraising and research functions of the Freeplay Foundation, with offices in Cape Town and London. Holding Masters degrees from Cambridge University in England, Midi has consulted to non-profits, international aid and development agencies, government ministries and corporations in four continents
Santoso - President Director 68H radio news agency
Santoso was the initiator of the Radio News Agency 68H program and has been its President Director since its establishment in 1999. Santoso co-founded the Alliance of Independent Journalists (AJI), in August 1994, and served as its first Secretary General, from 1994-1997. He received the Rob Bakker Award from the International Federation of Journalists in 1995
Tessa Piper - MDLF Country Program Director for Indonesia
Tessa Piper has specialized in media, human rights and civil society development in Indonesia for 15 years. She has lived in Asia since 1995 and in Indonesia since 1997 and is a fluent Indonesian speaker. As Country Program Director for Indonesia for MDLF since 2001, Tessa devised and successfully fundraised for a substantial grant program to assist media development in Indonesia
Personnel Statistics
Kristine Pearson, Executive Director
Founded in 1998
Employees: 10
Volunteers: 0
