Empower Program for Social Entrepreneurship

Freeplay Foundation - Michelle Liu

Michelle Liu

Michelle.Liu@tufts.edu 

Major / fields of study: International Relations & French 

Tufts program & expected graduate year: Arts & Sciences 2011

Interned for project manager at Freeplay Foundation in London.  I worked on project proposals, budgets, partner presentations, compiling and writing donor reports, and corresponding with partner organizations.  

Freeplay Foundation is an NGO which specializing in the tackling energy-poverty throughout sub-Saharan Africa.  Through the distribution of its unique wind-up and solar powered radios and flashlights, Freeplay Foundation has distributed over 200,000 radios and given over 800 million people listening access to radios.  Personally I worked under the project manager, who developed and implemented the distribution projects throughout sub-Saharan Africa.