This Kid Is Going Places and Bringing the World with Him

Posted on November 19, 2012 by russtowne

Meet Kelvin Doe, a 15-year-old from Sierra Leone, who took scraps from garbage cans and created his own radio transmitter to create his community’s first radio station. He broadcasts daily, even the community only gets electricity about once per week.

Now, he has plans to build a windmill for his community.

Russ

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6 Responses to This Kid Is Going Places and Bringing the World with Him

Professions for PEACE says:

November 19, 2012 at 8:11 pm

Wow, I love it! Thank you so much for sharing this inspirational story 🙂 Cheers, Gina

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- russtowne says:
  
  November 19, 2012 at 8:17 pm
  
  I’m glad it resonated with you, my friend.
  Russ
  
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Andrea Kelly says:

November 20, 2012 at 12:42 am

Wow! What inspiration! Awesome story Russ, thank you for sharing it with us.

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- russtowne says:
  
  November 20, 2012 at 12:54 am
  
  It is a pleasure to share stories of teenagers making the world a better place. Thank you for your feedback, my friend.
  Russ
  
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writerwannabe763 says:

November 20, 2012 at 3:24 pm

Touching story… BTW Russ have you changed your settings or something that asks readers to login each and every time a ‘like’ or ‘comment’ is made? Just the last couple of days this has been happening…Diane

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- russtowne says:
  
  November 20, 2012 at 5:47 pm
  
  Thank you for bringing that to my attention, Diane. The only change I’d made to my settings recently was to share my posts with my friends on Facebook. I’ll bet that’s the cause of the change you see. I had noticed a decrease in likes and comments recently and had wondered why. I’m not fond of having to login in every time I want to like or commen on other sitest, and I appreciate that you told me that you are having to do so at my site. I plan to de-couple from FB. Please let me know if that takes care of the issue.
  
  Russ
  
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