After falling ailing with dysentery, Joel Mwale determined to do one thing about the lack of clean consuming water in his village. With a small bit of cash he had saved and the knowledge of physics he had acquired at school, Joel built a borehole on some community farmland. The borehole reduced the amount of time required to collect water for each day cooking, drinking and cleaning, and reduced the speed of infection from water-borne illnesses. Over one hundred folks go to the farm day by day to collect water from the borehole, freed from charge. But Joel nonetheless wanted cash to pay his school fees and complete his secondary schooling.

Upon his launch from hospital Mwale invested his life savings, 10,000 Kenyan Shillings ($ninety five), in constructing a borehole in his village – a deep well that would reach the water flowing far beneath the bottom. We caught up … Read the rest