An inspiring story about 14 year old boy who changed his family's future and the future of his village solely through his curiousity and determination.
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William Kamkwamba’s parents couldn’t afford the $80 yearly tuition for their son’s school. Still emaciated from the recent deadly famine that had killed friends and neighbors, he went back to work on his family’s corn and tobacco farm in rural Malawi, Africa.
With no hope of getting the funds to go back to school, William continued his education by teaching himself, borrowing books from the small library at the elementary school in his village. One day, when William was 14, he went to the library and came across a fifth-grade science book called Using Energy. Describing this moment in his autobiography, The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, William wrote, “The book has since changed my life.”
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