by William Kamkwamba | Jun 25, 2007 | General
Our team for upgrading my home from National Solar and Power from left to right: Alfred Maele, Steven Machilika, me, Elias Lazaro, and Ben Salala. On Sunday, my friends from National Solar and I completed the next phase of work on my electrical system. You can see a...
by William Kamkwamba | Jun 23, 2007 | General
WednesdayOn Wednesday I visited a Solar and Wind Power dealer in the commercial trading area of Lilongwe, the capital city of Malawi, about 2 and 1/2 hours south of my home. I was looking for deep discharge batteries to replace the car battery I’ve been using to...
by William Kamkwamba | Jun 23, 2007 | General
The deep discharge batteries I have been waiting for since Tuesday arrived today at Solair, the solar and wind power dealer in Lilongwe that has been so helpful. Solair’s proprietor, Hamant, who has been incredibly helpful, with me. Elias, my friend from...
by William Kamkwamba | Jun 20, 2007 | General
Here is the first article from the Malawi’s The Daily Times, November 20, 2006. Sangwani has now left the Daily Times to work at a media NGO that promotes freedom of the press called Media Institute of Southern Africa or MISA. School dropout invents windmill...
by William Kamkwamba | Jun 20, 2007 | General
On Saturday I visited a Malawian NGO called Baobab Health. They work to automate the process of caring for patients in the Malawian health care system. My friends Mike, Peter and Soyapi work there. Here, Peter is showing me a stronger motor from a treadmill that I...
