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11 quotes by William Kamkwamba

The first windmill William Kamkwamba (born August 5, 1987) is a Malawian inventor and author. He gained fame in his country when, in 2002, he built a windmill to power a few electrical appliances in his family's house in Masitala using blue gum trees, bicycle parts, and materials collected in a local scrapyard. Since then, he has built a solar-powered water pump that supplies the first drinking water in his village and two other windmills (the...
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Sometimes you can fail in an experiment. But if you fail, you still don't stop observing that thing, looking for a better way.

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I will always be looking back at the things I've gone through, thinking of the struggling people I've seen.

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One thing that has helped me to become patient and cool is that I grew up with sisters.

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I want to bring clean water to people who do not have it. What I'm trying to do now is think of ways to build a well-drilling machine that is... →

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I would tell most young people that in life you can go through many difficulties, but if you know what you want to do, if you can focus, and work... →

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Clean water and power is our right as humans on this earth, and for too long, our governments in Africa have failed to provide these things.

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I want to build a machine that can drill wells for water. With this problem of water in many places in Africa, we need to find a solution for how you... →

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People in my village had this mindset that in big cities like New York, if you are lost or without directions, no one will help you. The first time I... →

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Climate change is important to Malawi, but many people see alternative energy more as a means to skip the government and get electricity and power.... →

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In my primary school, there was one book for five children. We always had to share, so you hoped you read at the same level as your friend. This... →

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Me and my cousin, most of the time we worked on radios and fixed them. I guess we started because I was curious to understand how radios work. When I... →

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