Spesheli ya watoto tu. Hasi na chanya
Spesheli ya watoto tu. Hasi na chanya
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Malawi 2001 [emoji1156]
A Malawian boy named William Kamkwamba from the Kasungu region who witnesses a terrible drought in 2001 build a windmill out of junk. Driven by desperation William starts searching in books for a solution until he comes across the picture of a windmill. Since he lacks resources, he goes to the nearby garbage dump and uses a tractor fan, shock absorber, bicycle frame, and PVC pipe to build a windmill that generates enough energy to pump water from the ground for his family's cornfields.
William reduced the technology and concept to the essentials and, thus created a low-tech product which is cheaper, easier to operate, and more resource-efficient. Furthermore, William adapted the innovation to the specific cultural and social context rather than adopting the local conditions so that they fit the innovation. After the windmill became accessible to Williams home village, he created a whole new market for the innovation which became accessible to many other low-income countries and regions.
William Kamkwamba took a complex, expensive innovation, the windmill, and developed a cheaper, frugal version. He turned old into new, transformed complexity into simplicity, and made the impossible possible by creating something valuable out of trash. As William states: 'Where the world sees trash, Africa recylces. Where the world sees junk, Africa sees rebirth'.
A Malawian boy named William Kamkwamba from the Kasungu region who witnesses a terrible drought in 2001 build a windmill out of junk. Driven by desperation William starts searching in books for a solution until he comes across the picture of a windmill. Since he lacks resources, he goes to the nearby garbage dump and uses a tractor fan, shock absorber, bicycle frame, and PVC pipe to build a windmill that generates enough energy to pump water from the ground for his family's cornfields.
William reduced the technology and concept to the essentials and, thus created a low-tech product which is cheaper, easier to operate, and more resource-efficient. Furthermore, William adapted the innovation to the specific cultural and social context rather than adopting the local conditions so that they fit the innovation. After the windmill became accessible to Williams home village, he created a whole new market for the innovation which became accessible to many other low-income countries and regions.
William Kamkwamba took a complex, expensive innovation, the windmill, and developed a cheaper, frugal version. He turned old into new, transformed complexity into simplicity, and made the impossible possible by creating something valuable out of trash. As William states: 'Where the world sees trash, Africa recylces. Where the world sees junk, Africa sees rebirth'.
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My body is shaking. I have never been so scared in my life![emoji27]
Dad just came out of a meeting with the doctor who told him that the cancer had spread all over my body.
He told him to ask me what dreams I want to fulfill before the end.
I wanted to scream. I'm only 9 years old !! Which end? My end?!
How can I be over now?[emoji17]
I told Daddy that the only dream I wanted to fulfill is to continue living.
To keep hugging him and mom. Grow up and return to school.
I'm not ready for this to be the end. I don’t want to. I don’t want to give up now. I don’t want to say goodbye yet.
I don’t want to count the days until the end.
Now, after all the treatments have failed, my only chance is an expensive experimental treatment. This is the only chance not to leave them, leave this world.
This is the only chance I got to not go to the grave.
So that I can continue to live and smile.
We are a simple family, we need your help in this war with this terrible cancer.
Please. I don't want to say goodbye![emoji27]
Donate > " The Doctor just told daddy that cancer has spread all over my body "
Dad just came out of a meeting with the doctor who told him that the cancer had spread all over my body.
He told him to ask me what dreams I want to fulfill before the end.
I wanted to scream. I'm only 9 years old !! Which end? My end?!
How can I be over now?[emoji17]
I told Daddy that the only dream I wanted to fulfill is to continue living.
To keep hugging him and mom. Grow up and return to school.
I'm not ready for this to be the end. I don’t want to. I don’t want to give up now. I don’t want to say goodbye yet.
I don’t want to count the days until the end.
Now, after all the treatments have failed, my only chance is an expensive experimental treatment. This is the only chance not to leave them, leave this world.
This is the only chance I got to not go to the grave.
So that I can continue to live and smile.
We are a simple family, we need your help in this war with this terrible cancer.
Please. I don't want to say goodbye![emoji27]
Donate > " The Doctor just told daddy that cancer has spread all over my body "