by William Kamkwamba | Oct 4, 2007 | General
My sisters Tiyamike, 6 (Hiding behind Guess How Much I Love You?) and Rose, 12 (Holding Katie the Windmill Cat) and my cousins with their first books. Because most people can’t afford private books in Malawi, children can go through all of primary school without...
by William Kamkwamba | Oct 4, 2007 | General
Soyapi Mumba is my friend and colleague at Baobab Health Partnership. We met in June on the plane from Lilongwe to Nairobi on the way to TEDGlobal. In many ways he’s responsible for many of the good things that have happened recently, as it was he who brought...
by William Kamkwamba | Oct 4, 2007 | General
Here is my school classroom. It’s unusual in that everyone works at a computer at their own pace. We also share the desks in the middle. Mrs. Maclean is our coach, helping us with assignments. Because we have only about a dozen students, she can give each of us...
by William Kamkwamba | Oct 4, 2007 | General
A friend brought his iPhone on a recent trip to Malawi. What’s amazing is that Baobab’s HIV patient care application just works right away over the Wifi connection and because of the interface elements built into the phone, it looks even better than in...
by William Kamkwamba | Oct 4, 2007 | General
At ABCCA, I am enrolled in an unusual kind of high school called distance learning where I am taught by teachers from the United States and Canada over the Internet. I’m also being tutored in math by the school headmaster Mr. Chuck Wilson to catch up on...
