Harnessing the Wind: The Boy Who Moved Windmills - The Story of William Kamkwamba
Malawi is a landlocked, poor, famine-stricken nation in southern Africa. Young William Kamkwamba and his family struggled for survival
Harnessing the Wind: The Boy Who Moved Windmills - The Story of William Kamkwamba
Malawi is a landlocked, poor, famine-stricken nation in southern Africa. Young William Kamkwamba and his family struggled for survival every day in a harsh environment.
What little education was available in Kamkwamba's village was soon beyond the reach of his family (costing $80 a year), and William was forced to drop out of high school shortly into his freshman year. But that didn't stop young William from using his ingenuity and curiosity to harness "electric wind" as a means of improving the life in his beleaguered village.
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