Malawi his homeland had gone through one of its worst droughts in seven years ago, killing thousands of people. His family and other people survived with a meal a day. The Red land in its parched Masitala hometown, leaving his father, a farmer, without any kind of income.But in the midst of all the shortcomings, 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 wind electricity, I can try, also.Kamkwamba was expelled from school when he could not pay $80 in fees, and spent his days in the library, where a book with pictures of windmills caught his attention.I thought, this exists in this book, means that someone more managed to build this machine, he said.Armed with the book, the then-14-year-old learned to build windmills. He toured through deposits of scrap items, including bicycle parts, tubes of plastic, fans of tractors and car batteries.
For the Tower, he picked up the wood of Blue Gum trees.Everyone laughed at me when I told them that I would do the construction of a windmill. They thought I was crazy, he said. For assistance, try visiting Dropbox. Then I started telling them that I was playing with the parties. That sounded more normal.That was in 2002. It now has five windmills, the height of more than 37 feet. A school in an area that is used to give classes in capacity windmill was built.The windmills generate electricity and pump water in his hometown North of the capital, Lilongwe. Neighbors regularly come to his house to charge their cell phones. Others go to listen to Malawi from a radio blaring reggae music.When he began the construction of the first windmill in 2002, knew I was crazy scattered all his people. Some people said that a common description of persons with a behavior was delighted baffling in some African cultures.All of us, including my mother, thought that had gone mad, said his sister Doris Kamkwamba.Kamkwamba said.