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Based in Washington DC, ILF was founded in 2003 as a private, non- profit 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to providing cost-effective technologies and self-sustaining interventions in order to enable vulnerable individuals to lift themselves out of poverty
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ILF's fuel-efficient stove program in Uganda began as a purely humanitarian initiative to distribute rocket stoves in IDP camps, and remains a humanitarian initiative in certain rural communities
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ILF purchased their first drilling rig and used it to drill bore holes for clean water access in Uganda
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From June, 2006-July 2008, ILF completed the drilling of an additional 60 boreholes
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ILF started its fuel-efficient stove humanitarian project in the Darfur area of Sudan
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International Lifeline Fund initiated a Fuel Efficient Stove (FES) program in Dadaab, aimed primarily at training refugees how to construct fuel-efficient stoves from locally available materials.
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ILF trained local agencies in producing fuel-efficient stoves for the Burundi and Congolese refugees in Tanzania
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ILF produced and distributed 15,585 stoves to Sudanese IDPs (internally displaced people) in Darfur
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IFL initiated its first commercialized fuel-efficient stove program in Lira, Uganda by establishing a production center and setting up its initial network of 10 vendors
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ILF completed the drillings of 40 boreholes in northern Uganda, providing a combined total of 20,000 people access to clean drinking water
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ILF’s youngest fuel-efficient stove program in Haiti, following the earthquake in January 2010, started implementing household and institutional stove programs primarily in Port-au-Prince.
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ILF became the first NGO in Uganda to become completely carbon neutral
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Lifeline was the recipient of the prestigious PCIA Global Leadership Award for its leadership in four key areas (meeting social and behavioral needs, developing local markets, improving technology design & performance, monitoring impacts of interventions)
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ILF completed the drilling of 35 boreholes, amounting to 15,000 beneficiaries in Uganda
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ILF produced 10,000 fuel-efficient stoves for the Somali refugees in Dadaab, Kenya and trained 10,000 Somali refugees
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ILF has distributed more than 11,000 household stoves to families living in urban resettlement camps in and around Port-au-Prince.
