The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba

Soon he was re-enrolled in college and travelling to America to visit wind farms. Another cost of the famine is the loss of the relationship between William and Khamba. Charity rationalizes that Khamba was old, but William knows he has done a terrible thing. When news of William's invention spread, people from across the globe offered to help him. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba is a memoir about the authors struggle to build a windmill in his village in Malawi. William gathers the courage to take one last look at Khamba, shattered by the sight of his pitiful frame as Khamba understands he is being left for good. He has since built more windmills for his school and his village. Only two per cent of Malawi has electricity William's windmill now powers the lightbulbs and radio for his compound. When a terrible drought struck William Kamkwambas tiny village in Malawi, his family lost all of the seasons crops, leaving them with nothing to eat and. This windmill has changed the world in which William and his family live. Fascinated by science and electricity, but knowing little more about the technology, William decided to build his own using nothing more than bits of scrap metal, old bicycle parts and wood from the blue gum tree. Claim: Based on information he learned from library books, school drop-out William Kamkwamba built a windmill out of scrap parts and brought electricity to his village in Malawi. One day, he picked up a book about energy, with a picture of a wind turbine on the front cover.

William resorted to borrowing books from the small local library to continue his education. When William Kamkwamba was just 14 years old, his family told him that he must leave school as they could no longer afford his fees. In the Netflix film based on William Kamkwambas memoir, Maxwell Simba plays the young man who would rise above the socio-economic struggle in. Soon to be a major motion pictured directed by and starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind is 'a moving, touching, important story.' SETH GODIN. Real-life 'Boy Who Harnessed The Wind' William Kamkwamba has sent a video message to say how much he is looking forward to hosting our.