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Malawi

Rapelang Rabana now co-leads a charity that teaches children with tablets. It reported serving 700,000 by early 2025.

Imagine Worldwide delivers literacy and numeracy through tablet-based learning in Sub-Saharan Africa, and won the 2024 Klaus J. Jacobs Best Practice Prize.

26 Jun 2026·1 min read

InnovationMalawi

William Kamkwamba dropped out because his family could not pay 80 dollars in school fees. He built a wind turbine from scrap.

In Malawi in 2001, a teenager read a library book, collected bicycle parts and blue gum trees, and built a turbine that powered his family’s house.

10 Dec 2025·1 min read