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William Heads to the City

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"I expected the audience to laugh at my silly english but all I heard was applause." (Kamkwamba 268)

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Happily Ever After

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the basic physical and organizational structures and facilities

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An indirect reference to another piece of literature

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Capitalists invested in which there is a substantial element of risk, typically a new or expanding business

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Silicon valley was not named off of the springy heat proof material

Silicon Valley was named after the invention of the silicon transistor

Google was founded there

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"Africans bend what little they have to their will every day"

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Outgoing
Compassionate
Eccentric

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William gets a chance to go back to school and things start looking way up

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"No matter how foreign and lonely the world was outside, the books always reminded me of home, sitting under the mango tree." (Kamkwamba 262

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Winds of Oppurtunity

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TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, and Design. TED represents the spread of ideas and the gratification of those who started the ideas.

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Come and See why Windsor Chico Care Center has become the choice for skilled nursing and rehab services in the area. Our team of professionals understand the importance of creating a warm, comfortable environment for all residents. Let us show you how we help people recover from surgery, injury and serious illness.

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William got validation in a few ways. First he got to go to TED talks with the people he respected and looked up to. Next, he was put back in school. Finally, no one called him mad man and many people were approving and supporting of his windmill.

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Demonstration or an act of support towards the truth or value of something

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Generous
Determined
Self Sufficient

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A section or speech at the end of a book or play that serves as a comment on or a conclusion to what has happened.

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Things get worse and William is blamed.

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“In science we invent and create,’ I said. ‘We make new things that can benefit our situation. If we can all invent something and put it to work, we can change Malawi.” (Kamkwamba 249)

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Things are looking down

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William used the art form of a play to remove the stigma and ignorance from the disease. He makes learning about it almost comical and it may help his village

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It weakens your immune system
It cannot be spread by casual contact
Africa actually has the most cases of HIV and AIDS

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AIDS/HIV- AIDS is a chronic, potentially life-threatening condition caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).

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He brought something new and different into his community. It was looked upon as witchcraft that he could pull electricity from air. He then became the scapegoat because of these things.

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AIDS/HIV Outbreaks
Chief Wimbe dies
Drought
Famine
Crazy animal killing people
Witch children gangs and head soccer

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DAKAR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Two former students from Burkina Faso have designed a mosquito-repellent soap, which they hope could be a simple and affordable solution in the fight to end malaria, but more funds are needed to test the idea, according to the startup behind it.

Moctar Dembélé and Gérard Niyondiko, the brains behind Faso Soap, were awarded a $25,000 prize for their invention in 2013 when they became the first African winners of the Global Social Venture Competition at the University of California Berkeley.

Yet Faso Soap must be tested to ensure it is safe for human use and effective at preventing malaria before it can be mass produced by soap manufacturers in Africa, said Franck Langevin, campaigns director for the Ouagadougou-based startup.

The soap, created from natural oils and plants, could prove successful in preventing malaria as it would be cheap and rely on existing habits of African households, Langevin said.

"People in Africa are very reluctant to change their habits, but soap is present in most homes, and is used for bathing, cleaning the house and washing clothes," he said.

The soap is designed to repel mosquitoes up to six hours after being applied, and once soapy water is thrown away on the street, hinder the insects from breeding in stagnant water.

"It is a simple and affordable weapon in the fight against malaria," Langevin told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.

Last month, Faso Soap launched a crowd funding appeal for $113,000 to finalize the development of the soap with the aim of distributing it in six African countries hardest-hit by malaria by 2018, working with soap manufacturers and aid agencies.

Last year, there were 214 million cases of malaria worldwide with the mosquito-borne disease killing 438,000 people, most of them in sub-Saharan Africa.

Jo Lines, reader of malaria control and vector biology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, praised the idea behind the soap, but said it would be dangerous to rely on an untested product to protect against malaria.

As a social startup, Langevin said Faso Soap has struggled to attract funding from donors, including the World Health Organisation (WHO) and United Nations children's agency (UNICEF), prompting the inventors to turn to crowd funding.

World leaders committed to ending malaria by 2030 when they adopted the Sustainable Development Goals last year.

Europe last month became the first region to be declared malaria-free after reporting no indigenous cases in 2015, and a former WHO official said the world can eliminate the disease soon, but only with more investment to end and keep it at bay.

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Mosquito-repellent soap invention seeks to wash away Africa malaria threat

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Two former students from Burkina Faso have designed a mosquito-repellent soap, which they hope could be a simple and affordable solution in the fight to end malaria, but more funds are needed to test the idea, according to the startup behind it.

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It is a renewable and helpful source of energy that prevents deforestation

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A form of energy made from organic material

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The water pump was too tough to use!

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Working all day and drinking it away at night

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"Finally I could touch the wall and get lights!"

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William continues to improve his windmill.

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Life in the Light

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Now instead of being mocked William is more appreciated. Even the welder just smiles and asks what he needs instead of giving him weird looks. He is almost a celebrity in his town and he enjoys it.

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Step Up transmitter
Lights in the house

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Circuit breakers are used in most electronics

Circuit breakers are protection for electronics

The circuit breaker "trips" the current

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Cuts of current in the event of a power surge

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He was a famous physisist

You may not know that he also studied chemistry

He helped with the understanding of electromagnetism

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They have a similar relative that actually works in reverse

They have not 1, but 2 outputs

Using math you can use these to "choose" the voltage output

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Its a transformer that increases voltage

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"It was glorious light and it was absolutely mine!" (Kamkwamba 203

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The windmill is up and ready for action while the doubters get proven wrong.

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Electric Wind

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"We all laughed about it now, because it was only during the better times that we truly acknowledged the bad ones

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Gilbert Saves The Day

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Everything Falls Into Place

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The quality of being grateful, or willing to return kindness

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1.) It used an old bicycle to help it rotate.
2.) It used a dynamo to create the energy.

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"Finally I decided that whenever someone shouted from the school yard, "William what are you doing in the garbage?" I'd just smile and say "Nothing, only playing." (Kamkwamba 189)
"That's right," I said . "I'm a lazy misala, but I know what I'm doing , and soon all of you will see!" (Kamkwamba 191)

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Pythagoras was originally laughed at and cast out by others but then he became an amazing scientist.

Albert Einstein was said to be going nowhere but then became one of the most recognized scientists ever.

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The government has stopped helping some schools
Most families cannot afford school for more than one child.

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My First Windmill

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"Soon we'd behvesting and our problems would be over, at least for this year." (Kamkwamba 176

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The famine starts to end and the construction of the windmill begins

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Kinetic energy- The energy from being in motion
Diode- A semiconductor device with two terminals, typically allowing the flow of current in one direction only
Electroscope- An instrument for detecting and measuring electricity
Electromagnetic Energy- Energy from a magnetic field that is produced by the motion of electric charges such as electric current.

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The situations here are very similar for one primary reason. The schools are limiting education. In the video he talks about how some can not learn because of the horribly strict way of teaching. In Williams school they are not providing school but forcing them to pay money they don't have to go to school.

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"My god, to have a stomach filled with hot food was one of the greatest pleasures in life." (Kamkwamba 157)

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Khamba dies soon before dowe is ready

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Survival Is Ours

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Dowe is now ready to eat, now they are not starving!

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PIH: Spring Rains Will Flood Haiti With Cholera | Visual.ly

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"The Haitian cholera epidemic is the largest the world has seen in recent history. Haiti deserves nothing less than a comprehensive, integrated respon

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1. The death rate of chlorea per year is from 21,000 to 143,000
2. Most cases can be cured with oral re-hydration solution
3. Most places with frequent outbreaks of chlorea have limited access to clean water.
4. Chlorea vaccines are being more frequently given to at risk countries
5. Chlorea is preventable

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An infectious and often fatal bacterial disease of the small intestine, typically contracted from infected water supplies and causing severe vomiting and diarrhea.

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A widespread outbreak of an infectious disease.

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I am torn between both sides on this decision. While I loved Khamba and wish he was alive and healthy, it hurt me to hear of his horrible condition. If he could have made it a few more weeks he would have been fine because everyone else was also suffering. However, if Khamba was going to pass away anyway they should have at least done it quickly and not as inhumanely as they did.

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"watching it spiral to the ground like a broken paper airplane."

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Little did I know, but my stomach had taken over my entire body during the night, filled every limb and crevice, all the way up to my head like a great big balloon.

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William is forced to drop out of school as hunger and disease run rampant.

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"Whereas I was still confused as to how the hunger had been allowed to happen, this much was certain: Every man for himself" (Kamkwamba 139)

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Famine and Tension Arrive

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Is Society Obligated To To Take Care of the Weak

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Is Society Obligated To To Take Care of the Weak

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Some may say that it is a personal problem if someone is weak, but I believe that it is our duty as fellow humans to take care of our people. When someone is in need, we should help. Just think about how one would want to be treated by others. Being weak is horrible but being weak and shunned unbearable. I leave you with this, if you are healthy and expect to have all your needs taken care of, then why shouldn't the sick

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An intermittent and remittent fever caused by a protozoan parasite.

1.) Nearly half of the world's population is at risk for malaria.
2.) Children under 5 are more likely to get malaria.
3.) Malaria mortality rates are actually falling.
4.) The parasites that cause malaria are becoming resistant to the treatment.
5.) Pregnant women are at a higher risk for malaria.

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A sister comes, another goes, and famine creeps up on the family.

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"I tried to remember what the room had looked like when it was full, when our lives had been normal and fear didn't live inside of us." (Kamkwamba 99)

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Hungry Hordes and Holidays

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Mob mentality increases any feelings one might have had before. Also the person might act in a way they might normally not because they believe they will not have the same consequences as they would alone

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The brain itself actually shrinks. Also depression, anxiety, and paranoia increase while concentration decreases.

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Relating to the branch of life science that deals with normal body functions and parts.

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In the past the government provide the farmers with starter kits for farming which helped to make more healthy crops.

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UNICEF Organization

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A Global Response to Save Children from Hunger

Following one of the worst droughts in recent memory, an unprecedented humanitarian aid operation unfolded in Somalia, Kenya, Ethiopia and Djibouti.

Thanks to the generosity of donors, UNICEF and its partners helped save the lives of countless children suffering from hunger, malnutrition and disease in the region and reverse the famine in Somalia.

As encouraging as these results are, the humanitarian crisis is far from over.

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A Global Response to Save Children from Hunger Following one of the worst droughts in recent memory, an unprecedented humanitarian aid operation unfolded in Somalia, Kenya, Ethiopia and Djibouti. Thanks to the generosity of donors, UNICEF and its partners helped save the lives of countless children suffering from hunger, malnutrition and disease in the region and reverse the famine in Somalia.

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arvest should be the time for celebrations, weddings and full bellies in southern Malawi. But Christopher Witimani, Lilian Matafle and their seven children and four grandchildren had nothing to celebrate last week as they picked their meagre maize crop.

Last year's drought, followed by erratic rains, hit the village of Nkhotakota hard. But this year the rains never came and, for a second year running, the family grain store is empty. If they manage their savings carefully and eat just one small meal a day, they may just have enough food for two more months.

By August, said Irish charity Concern Worldwide, they and tens of thousands of other small farmers in southern Malawi will have completely run out of food, with no prospect of another harvest for at least seven months. With nothing to sell and no chance of earning money, Witimani, Matafle and family will starve.

"I am worried the children will starve to death. I don't know what to do," said Matafle.

"We need food. We are in a desperate situation," her husband added.

Countries are just waking up to the most serious global food crisis of the last 25 years. Caused by the strongest El Niño weather event since 1982, droughts and heatwaves have ravaged much of India, Latin America and parts of south-east Asia. But the worst effects of this natural phenomenon, which begins with waters warming in the equatorial Pacific, are to be found in southern Africa. A second consecutive year without rain now threatens catastrophe for some of the poorest people in the world.

The scale of the crisis unfolding in 10 or more southern African countries has shocked the United Nations. Lulled into thinking that Ethiopia in 1985 was the last of the large-scale famines affecting many millions, donor countries have been slow to pledge funds or support. More than $650m and 7.9m tonnes of food are needed immediately, says the UN. By Christmas, the situation will have become severe.

Malawi, Mozambique, Lesotho, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Madagascar, Angola and Swaziland have already declared national emergencies or disasters, as have seven of South Africa's nine provinces. Other countries, including Botswana and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, have also been badly hit. President Robert Mugabe has appealed for $1.5bn to buy food for Zimbabwe and Malawi is expected to declare that more than 8 million people, or half the country, will need food aid by November.

Serena Gadinala, from the in Neno district of Malawi, has tried different planting techniques but nothing worked and her crops continue to wilt. Photograph: Tamara van Vliet/OCHA

More than 31 million people in the region are said by the UN to need food now, but this number is expected to rise to at least 49 million across almost all of southern Africa by Christmas. With 12 million more hungry people in Ethiopia, 7 million in Yemen, 6 million in Southern Sudan and more in the Central African Republic and Chad, a continent-scale food crisis is unfolding.

"Food security across southern Africa will start deteriorating by July, reaching its peak between December 2016 and April 2017," says the UN's office for humanitarian affairs. The regional cereal deficit already stands at 7.9m tonnes and continues to put upward pressure on market prices, which are already showing unprecedented increases, diminishing purchasing power and thereby reducing food access. As food insecurity tightens and water scarcity increases due to the drought, there are early signs of acute malnutrition in Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique and Zimbabawe.

For Coco Ushiyama, head of the UN's World Food Programme in Lilongwe, Malawi's capital, just working out how to import a million tonnes of food, needed to support between five million and eight million people in Malawi over the next 12 months, is proving nightmarishly difficult. With no guarantees of money from donors, she cannot buy the food on the open market, or book ships and transport.

"We are very concerned. Last year, like many other countries in the region, Malawi had a double disaster with erratic rains and then floods which led into droughts," said Ushiyama. "Last year, 2.8 million people were affected. Then we had a deficit of 220,000 tonnes of food. This year, we are anticipating it will be four times as bad. The maize price is already exceptionally high.

"We are monitoring 50 markets throughout the country and already they are seeing abnormally high prices. We have very worryingly high admission rates for childhood malnutrition in health clinics. In some areas it is very serious already and it is likely to get much more serious. It will be a regional issue," she said.

The government has declared a disaster and will publish a new assessment of its needs in the next few weeks. The vice-president, Saulos Chilima, has said that about 1.3m tonnes of maize will be needed.

Politicians may talk of going on to the world market to buy a million tonnes of maize, but Ushiyama is unsure where it will come from. There is usually enough food in the region, but South Africa, which usually exports a million tonnes of food a year, will need to import 3.5m tonnes this year. Only Zambia may have enough food to export and it has imposed restrictions, she said.

"South Africa is in trouble. Nearby Zambia has had a better harvest than most countries but it has put export restrictions on its food. If we import it [from outside Africa], the food will take four to six months [to arrive]. We have learned from experience that the rains start in November so the roads will be terrible when the food is most needed and some lorry drivers will refuse to come. By November, we will need to have pre-positioned food in key areas. But to get it there by then means ordering the food right now," she said.

People are divide pulses among themselves at a United Nations World Food Programme food distribution centre in Chikwawa district, Malawi. Photograph: Tamara van Vliet/OCHA

Finding the cash to feed possibly 50 million people for eight or more months is the biggest problem of all, says the UN, because Africa's slow-burn crisis must compete with Middle East wars, refugees and natural disasters for attention. According to the UN, which is holding an unprecedented humanitarian summit this week in Istanbul, 125 million people worldwide need long-term assistance and a further 60 million have been forced from their homes by war, violence and disaster.

More than $1.5bn has been requested by southern African governments, says Ocha, the UN's Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, but less than a quarter of this has been pledged. Officially, the deficit is $677 million (87%) but this will grow when countries complete their assessments of the harvests in the next few weeks.

"The window for responding in a meaningful manner is closing rapidly," said Shadrack Omol, senior adviser to the UN children's fund, Unicef. "The concern is that slow-onset emergencies, like the one we are dealing with in southern Africa, do not get enough attention because they creep up on us."

John Makina, Oxfam country director in Malawi, said: "The donors just do not have the money; there is donor fatigue. Malawi has been hit by drought, then floods, then drought. The donors are getting tired of it. In 2015, Malawi alone needed $170m. In 2016-17, it will be far more.

"The full impact will be felt from October to March 2017. It's looking really bad. The most affected will be the poorest and jobless. They will end up selling what little they possess. The price of maize flour has already gone to 9,000 kwachas (£8.70) for 50kg. It will double again for sure," he said.

International development minister Nick Hurd, who has visited Mozambique, wants Britain to lead the humanitarian effort. But money cannot be given directly to the country following a corruption scandal, and the government must work through a consortium of NGOs, providing food vouchers, medical aid and food-for-work schemes.

"We cannot and will not stand idly by while millions suffer. Britain is playing a leading role in helping countries across Africa to cope with the impact of El Niño. Support for people affected by El Niño is important to Africa and also firmly in Britain's national interest," says Hurd.

In villages across southern Africa, people are fearful, unsure how they will survive. In Mozambique, where Britain is contributing £11.8m over three years, some food aid has arrived in the village of Mblalava.

A farmer tries to grow crops with the help of a United Nations supported irrigation scheme in the Neno district of Malawi. Photograph: Tamara van Vliet/OCHA

The women are ecstatic: "It's been two and a half years since we had good rain," said Rosita Chauque, a mother of three. "When the drought started we used to be able to find vegetables in the bush, but even these have gone now. We used to make and sell charcoal, but there are so many other people doing that now it's not possible. We have thought of leaving, but where to? We have no crops in the fields, no food for the cattle and nothing for ourselves. There is no water, no grass. People are selling their animals. They have no other resources. There is a lot of suffering."

"The situation is critical," said Abdoulaye Balde, the World Food Programme country director in Mozambique's capital, Maputo. "We are at the point of no return."

Droughts and "hungry seasons" are common throughout southern Africa, but the breadth of this year's crisis is very unusual, says Caoimhe de Barra, Malawi country director of Concern Worldwide. Her frontline workers see rural people already employing traditional coping strategies, including eating wild foods, taking children out of school, selling their animals and assets.

"Early action is key. If we can start supporting people now, we can save lives and prevent an even worse situation later this year. People are not currently dying of hunger but the overall health of the population will be severely affected by hunger-related illnesses. Malnutrition will blight the life chances of countless more Malawian children," she said.

The secretary general of the International Red Cross, Elhadj As Sy, who visited Malawi and Zimbabwe last week, said: "Much more needs to be done to support communities to survive and strive over the coming months. We met families who have received no external support and who are simply desperate. We need to urgently scale up our interventions to prevent this situation from becoming a catastrophe," he said.

Relief from Africa's long drought may finally be coming, says the World Meteorological Organisation, which is monitoring the temperature of waters in the Pacific. These are said to be cooling rapidly and are expected to be "neutral" by mid-June. That, says the UN, signals the coming end of the El Niño, the droughts and the worldwide heatwaves.

The effects, however, will not be felt in southern Africa until April 2017 when the next main harvest should be in. But, says the WMO, there may be a sting in the tale. There is a 50:50 chance that the continent will be hit from September by El Niño's climatic "twin", known as La Niña, which develops as the Pacific Ocean equatorial waters cool after an El Niño.

Instead of droughts, La Niña usually brings heavier monsoon rains in south-east Asia and much cooler and wetter conditions in southern Africa.

"We pray hard for rain and then we must pray harder that it stops. Is there no end of extreme weather?" said Malawian villager Richard Kapenda.

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Across Africa, the worst food crisis since 1985 looms for 50 million

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A second year without rain threatens to bring catastrophe for some of the poorest people in the world. Donor countries, in the grip of wars and refugee crises, have been slow to pledge funds. But by the time they do, it could be too late

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It starts when a girl asks a guy to come meet her family. The guy will propose if he feels safe with the family. The girl then goes and "talks to her uncle" which means from mom, to dad, to uncle. Then the uncle names the dowry (proposal fee) and the uncle also gets a "mouth fee" for speaking to the groom. The man also pays for all of the wedding expenses.

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"We were headed for a disaster, but even he didn't know how bad it would get." (Kamkwamba 88)