{"id":719,"date":"2010-05-10T11:10:43","date_gmt":"2010-05-10T11:10:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=719"},"modified":"2010-05-10T11:45:46","modified_gmt":"2010-05-10T11:45:46","slug":"shortwave-radio-charity-ears-to-our-world-featured-in-wall-street-journal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/shortwave-radio-charity-ears-to-our-world-featured-in-wall-street-journal\/","title":{"rendered":"Shortwave Radio Charity, Ears To Our World, Featured in Wall Street Journal"},"content":{"rendered":"

From the Wall Street Journal Magazine:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Source: ETOW Partner - The Empower Campaign<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cThis is the sound of renewable education!\u201d says Thomas Witherspoon, 37, founder of Ears to Our World, as he picks up a small portable radio and quickly cranks its handle, producing a high-pitched, wobbly whine. Inside, a dynamo charges the radio\u2019s battery. Witherspoon has taken his love of shortwave radio and filtered it through his experience in the corporate world, devising a strategy to help the most people for the least money. ETOW distributes wind-up radios to isolated villages across Africa and into Belize and Romania, providing listeners with vital information. His radios are also proving to be disaster-relief heroes in earthquake-devastated Haiti.<\/p>\n

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Thomas Witherspoon of ETOW. Source: WSJ Mag, Randy Harris<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cWe give them to schools, and teachers use them to enhance the classroom experience,\u201d Witherspoon says. \u201cIt\u2019s not dependent on power. It\u2019s not dependent on Internet or any other infrastructures.\u201d Founded in 2008, ETOW has grown quickly, squeezing the most out of minimal funding by collaborating with established educational organizations, and by taking advantage of the one-to-many model inherent in broadcasting. \u201cI\u2019ve heard stories coming back from some of our partners that when someone\u2019s listening to a radio, you can guarantee there\u2019s going to be 10, 20 people listening at the same time,\u201d Witherspoon says.<\/p>\n

Read the full article at the Wall Street Journal website<\/a> <\/strong> and consider expanding your radio hobby by donating to ETOW!<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From the Wall Street Journal Magazine: \u201cThis is the sound of renewable education!\u201d says Thomas Witherspoon, 37, founder of Ears to Our World, as he picks up a small portable radio and quickly cranks its handle, producing a high-pitched, wobbly whine. Inside, a dynamo charges the radio\u2019s battery. 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