Environment

Windpower from Scratch

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After dropping out of school as a teenager because of poverty and drought, William Kamkwamba built a windmill out of discarded materials in his village. Kamkwamba tells anchor Marco Werman how the windmill brought electricity to his tiny village in Malawi.

• Video: William Kamkwamba talks about making his first windmill
• William Kamkwamba’s blog
• Kamkwamba’s book ‘The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind’