Here's an article of a young man that didn't wait around for others to solve a problem:

http://www.brassmagazine.com/article/william-kamkwamba-building-windmills-power-future 

It's a couple of pages in a magazine that our Credit Union sends to us. Hopefully you'll like it as much as I did.

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"Because of the famine, my parents didn't have any money to send me to school, and I was forced to drop out," William says. Without farming or schoolwork to be done, William was shackled at home by boredom and semi-starvation. "I was looking in my future, and I thought, 'I will not automatically continue with my education; I will automatically become a farmer as my parents,'" William explains. "I didn't hate to become a farmer, but to become a farmer [only growing] to live and not grow[ing] to benefit--I didn't like that."

William's mental hunger for education drove him to the library in nearby Wimbe, next door to Wimbe Primary School, where he had received his elementary education.

What an awesome story. More power to him!

Johann, I agree.

Its too bad others don't read the story.

for some, learning to read would be a good start.

Ouch...

but true.

Most of the people this story will benefit cannot read. Most of the people that would benefit and can read do not care.