Ears to Our World works with local organizations to get the radios to where they are needed most. Mr. Witherspoon says the radios are now in eleven communities, most of them in Africa.
He says many of these communities are unable to get information any other way.
THOMAS WITHERSPOON: “We take our radios to parts of the world that lack access to the Internet, to a national power grid of any sort. We’re talking about places maybe in South Sudan that are very, very remote. No one in the community or the village has power in their homes."
Thomas Witherspoon says information is the most important tool to improve the lives of poor people.
THOMAS WITHERSPOON: “In this economy, information is sort of the lifeline for all of us to function and get along. Especially if you’re living in a place where you have no information, information is your way out of poverty.”
The self-powered radios are also useful in emergencies. Teachers in Haiti used them to get information after last year's earthquake.
Mr. Witherspoon says Ears to Our World has sent out about one thousand two hundred radios. More than half have gone to earthquake victims, mostly in Haiti. About five hundred have gone to individual teachers and schools.
More recently, Ears to Our World worked to bring the radios to children with vision problems in Belize.
THOMAS WITHERSPOON: "Having a radio that they can control and listen to, and search around on, it just opens a world of information to them."
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