Added February 6, 2012 by TEDxKids@Tokyo
Two years on from his first TED appearance, William Kamkwamba made another speech in TED2009. Here he gave his personal account on his childhood, the famine in his country, and how he came to build a windmill. His widely acclaimed 2007 speech brought him a scholarship and he was studying at Dartmouth College when he made this speech. His voice and expressions shows that he is making the most of this new opportunity.
[TEDGlobal2009, Jul 2009 | 5:59]
Added January 30, 2012 by TEDxKids@Tokyo
At TEDGlobal 2007, William Kamkwamba from Malawi made a short but quite impressive talk. When Malawi was hit by famine and he was forced to leave school, he found a book on wind electricity at a village library. He then self-studied the mechanism of windmill, built one by himself, and generated electricity in his mostly unelectrified village. His simple words “I tried and I made it” really struck my heart.
[TEDGlobal2007, Jun 2007 | 4:15]
Added November 12, 2011 by TEDxKids@Tokyo
At last year’s TEDxNextGenerationAsheville, then 11-year-old Birke Baehr stated a sense of discomfort against the trend in the US food system such as genetic modification. He argues that we should turn our attention more to local harvest and organic food. An impressive talk by a boy who used to have a dream of becoming an NFL player but now wants to be an organic farmer.
[TEDxNextGenerationAsheville, Aug 2010 | 5:14]
