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In this inspiring story, MIT Media Lab, Ph. D. student David Sengeh, who is from Sierra Leone, shares the story of Kelvin Doe. Kelvin is a self-taught inventor also from Sierra Leone. Most of Kelvin's creations have come from discarded electrical components which he found in the garbage. He's created a low power FM radio station and a generator to power it, all from other people's "trash."
At 2:11 David discusses International Aid and what needs to come next. David says:
"For quite many years, Sierra Leone and many African countries received aid. But it does not necessarily get us anywhere. We are not looking into the future. We are not designing our own future. Unless we have a host of young people who can think (at any given point) that here's a challenge, that here's a problem, with an opportunity to solve it, there won't be stable growth in national development."
- What do you think?
- How can our aid efforts also foster the next steps of empowering people to design their own future?
- What are you working on now that activates these ideas?
- What questions does this story raise for you and your work?
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