Kelvin Doe
Born in a poor area of Freetown, Sierra Leone, Kelvin Doe is the youngest of five. The area lacked electricity and water, and it was so unreliable that the lights would only come on once a week. At the age of 10 he started collecting old devices and scrap metal to create something new out of it. He would do this by taking apart the old devices to see how they work, and then piece them back together as new inventions that came straight out of his mind. He built batteries and transmitters out of discarded pieces of scrap. Later he participated in GMin’s Innovate Salone idea competition, where he got to the finals and built a generator from scrap metal. He used the living room as his workstation where he built batteries for power lamps, and generators for electricity when it was not available.