Inventor and author William Kamkwamba and serial entrepreneur Tom Rielly
About this episode
William Kamkwamba and Tom Rielly discuss their journey in founding the Moving Windmills Project and empowering youth in Malawi.
Inventor and author William Kamkwamba, and serial entrepreneur Tom Rielly are the co-founders of Moving Windmills Project, an NGO empowering young change-makers in rural Malawi. William and Tom join Elliot to talk about William's incredible journey from being been forced - aged 14 - to drop out of school during a famine, and how his attempts to solve his family’s problems by building his own windmill, led to his story being adapted into a book, a film and now a musical theatre show.
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