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In The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, Chiwetel Ejiofor (left) plays Trywell, the father of titular teenager William. Ilze Kitshoff/Netflix.
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In 2006, four years after it went up, Kamkwamba's makeshift windmill attracted the attention of local journalists. A proclaimed, 'School Dropout With a Streak of Genius.' After this accomplishment, Kamkwamba still hadn't been able to return to school. But thanks increased media coverage, a government official arranged for Kamkwamba's education to be paid for through high school. In 2007, Kamkwamba's story reached a global scale.
He was the the star of a TED conference hosted in Arusha, Tanzania. There, Kamkwamba met Ted Rielly, the New York-based TED community director who helped him through college. But no matter how far he travelled, Kamkwamba's goal was always to return to Malawi and better his community. Even while he was in college in New Hampshire, Kamkwamba's mind was on Malawi.
As a 24-year-old engineering student, Kamkwamba was paying for the private school of four sisters, a cousin, a friend, and some neighbours out of pocket. He also founded a soccer team and launched a fundraiser to rebuild the local school. 'What I am always thinking about is how I can apply what I am learning here to help those at home,” Kamkwamba told the, when he was a freshman.