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African Teen Builds Windmills from Junk and Supplies His Village with Electricity
His native Malawi had gone through one of its worst droughts seven years ago, killing thousands. His family and others were surviving on one meal a day. The red soil in his Masitala hometown was parched, leaving his father, a farmer, without any income. But amid all the shortages, one thing was still abundant. Wind. "I wanted to do something to help and change things," he said. "Then I said to myself, 'If they can make electricity out of wind, I can try, too."
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I was going to say that I remember reading about this in HS, then I saw "That was 2002" and confirmed my suspicion.
That said, the math doesn't work out. If he was 14 in 2002 when he started building windmills, I doubt that he's 22 in 2019.