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My hero is George Odhiambo, a metalworker in Gikomba, Nairobi (blogged about on Afrigadget: http://www.afrigadget.com/2008/06/17/re-use-in-the-unofficial-kenya...)
He is significant not for making a company or an invention that will save the world and help millions of people, but rather for using some ingenuity, engineering, and the resources available to him to create something he needed (especially exciting to me since it is for blacksmithing). He created a hand-cranked bellow made from a bicycle wheel and other scrap materials.
Unfortunately, I do not think I will be able to contact George. A search on facebook turned up over 95 George Odhiambo's, and assuming he's even one of them I would have no idea how to figure out which one. He is so significant to me, and he is the hero I wish I could shadow, because this is an example of exactly what I believe in, and to an extent exactly what I want to do: creating tools to help create other things out of the resources available, especially those that others consider worthless. Since this is with blacksmithing, I love it.
A very similar example is the cement-bag bellow.
I would love to follow a metalworker in a poor or developing community, or someone working with metalworking in the developing world. Does anyone know of one I would be able to contact and follow?
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