![]() ![]() Sometimes, we take lightly the interests we have and the potential those interests have to bring impact in our lives. ![]() Give a man a fish and he will be fed for one day, teach a man how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. Not to boost their ego or boast about their achievements, but to genuinely educate others and put them in a position to not only want more for themselves, but to also do more, even for others. We can often find solace in those extraordinary individuals who always go back home, “to give back” and to pass on the knowledge they have accumulated to the next generation. No fancy materials, no crowd funding, “just the wonders of science” and hope that a solution can bring great change to a future he could not accept. ![]() That is a mouth full but to be honest, to possess belief at that scale can definitely shake you as a person, no less a fourteen-year boy facing yet another grave challenge in rural Malawi.Īfter reading a book called “Using Energy” and various other physics textbooks, he applied the knowledge to create a solution to an African problem – building windmills to generate electricity and pump water from an existing borehole to irrigate the farmlands. A true story about how a boy’s need for his family to survive, planted a seed so deep, that it drove him to believe in himself beyond a shadow of a doubt, that his ability to apply what he has learned at school can actually save his family. ![]()
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