The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba 273 pp.
This is the amazing and inspiring true story. William Kamkwamba was forced to drop out of school after one year of high school due to his family's poverty and famine conditions in Malawi. He teaches himself basic electricity from books he studied in the local 3-shelf library. Using junk parts from bicycles, radios, tractors and other scrap he built a windmill that generated electricity. Eventually the world learned of this feat and he has traveled the world and is furthering his education in hopes of finding new ways to better the lives of people in living in poverty in Africa.
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