Working mostly in Africa, where affordable energy is scarce or non-existent, the Freeplay Foundation collaborates with professionals in health, education, agriculture, complex emergencies and peacemaking - all sectors where radio can play a vital or even life-saving role.
Much of the developed world drowns in data from the Information Superhighway. Yet in developing countries, many have never made a phone call and few have ever switched on a computer. Radio remains the world's lifeline.
The greatest barrier to the alleviation of poverty is isolation. Radio has the potential to?reach anyone isolated by geography, language, conflict, illiteracy or poverty.
Millions of dollars are spent each year to create excellent radio programming, yet the target audience, the poor, may never hear it. The reason is power - most people do not have electricity or cannot afford the on-going cost of batteries.