Thirteen-year-old Kamkwamba was expelled from school because his family didn't have the money to pay $80 a year. He loved learning and slipped into the school's library to find a way to save the village from starvation: he built it out of the main frame of his father's bicycle. A humble but viable windmill that provides much-needed electricity to the west, undisturbed by government outages. The invention also allowed Kamkwamba to receive funding from a professor in Malawi, a scholarship from the school, and in-depth exchanges with other inventors on the African continent.
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