SydneyPLUS Thanks for Thanksgiving (Canada)

With the (Canadian) Thanksgiving Day on Monday, October 12th, we thought our members may want to take a break from reading about SydneyPLUS products and services, and reflect on an inspiring story about a William Kamkwamba, a windmill, and the positive role of libraries.

Here is the inspiring story:

William Kamkwamba was born August 5, 1987, in Malawi, Africa. Something remarkable happened to him at the age of 14. While poverty made him drop out of school at that age, he built a windmill to generate electricity for his home in a country where only two percent of the population can afford it. Where did he learn to build a windmill? A nearby library.

Movingwindmills.org, an official site with more information, affirms the role of the library:

"Armed with curiosity, determination and a library book he discovered in a nearby library, he embarked on a daring plan—to build a windmill that could bring his family the electricity only two percent of Malawians could afford."

You can read William's autobiography this Thanksgiving as it was recently released worldwide on September 29, 2009.