He immediately grasps the potential for such a machine, and starts to work out how to build one. William does have access to a small library though, and in it he finds a book on using energy, with a picture of wind turbines on the front. There isn’t the money to send him to school beyond primary, his obvious intelligence and desire to learn counting for nothing when there is so little money to go round. His family are farmers, more or less eking out a subsistence lifestyle. The book tells the story of William Kamkwamba, a child in a village in rural Malawi. ![]() So this has been our bedtime reading for the last couple of weeks, and they have loved it. I hadn’t actually read the whole story for myself, but I noticed that there’s a Young Readers edition and I bought it to read to the kids. ![]() Since then the story has been published as a biography, and then turned into a rather good movie directed by Chiwetel Ejiofor. Back in 2007 when this blog was young, I wrote about William Kamkwamba and his DIY wind turbine as an example of appropriate technology.
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