Rural electricity access in Malawi was about 2% in 2002, and a 14-year-old sent home from school over $80 in fees built a 5-metre tower from blue gum poles, a broken bicycle and a tractor fan — the dynamo lit four bulbs and two radios, and neighbours queued to charge phones
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A teenager expelled for unpaid fees scavenged scrap metal and bicycle parts to build a windmill that transformed his village—and proved that ingenuity thrives where resources don't.
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