Low-cost power banks helping avert blackout impacts in Malawi

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Low-cost power banks helping avert blackout impacts in Malawi

STORY: Low-cost power banks helping avert blackout impacts in Malawi DATELINE: Dec. 31, 2022 LENGTH: 00:02:46 LOCATION: BLANTYRE, Malawi CATEGORY: TECHNOLOGY SHOTLIST: 1. various of Silumbu's workshop 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): SAM SMITH SILUMBU, Entrepreneur 3. various of Silumbu's workshop 4. SOUNDBITE 2 (English): SAM SMITH SILUMBU, Entrepreneur STORYLINE: Technology can truly change people's lives for the better. In Malawi, an entrepreneur is making low-cost power banks using Chinese technology to avert impacts of power cuts. Driven by persistent blackouts, Sam Smith Silumbu, in 2021 opened a workshop in one of the suburbs of Blantyre City, south Malawi. Its core business is to manufacture mobile phone accessories including low-cost power banks. The 30-year-old says he came across a lot of Chinese technologies when studying Civil Engineering as a self-sponsored student at Xinyu University in China's Jiangxi Province around 2017. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): SAM SMITH SILUMBU, Entrepreneur "When I came bac

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