Evans Wadongo invented a way for rural Kenyans to replace smoky kerosene and firelight with solar lanterns. Wadongo, 23, not only is giving his country's rural families a way to replace the smoky kerosene and firelight with solar power, he says he also hopes his invention will ultimately improve education and reduce poverty and hunger. And he's providing it for free.
Read more about his nomination last year:
http://edition.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cnn.heroes/archive10/evans.wadongo.html
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/LIVING/02/11/cnnheroes.wadongo/
On March 30, 2011, Wadongo was named one of three recipients of the inaugural Mikhail Gorbachev Awards for "people who changed the world". His fellow inaugural recipients of this award were Sir Tim Berners Lee, inventor of the World Wide web and Ted Turner, media mogul and founder of CNN. The ceremony, held in London, also celebrated Gorbachev's 80th birthday
read more wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evans_Wadongo
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