Bisi
Bisi's very inspiring story was shared by a Good Samaritan, who met with the boy recently in Ekiti State.
The young boy, a primary 5 school dropout hustles for himself and
his poor family by making fans from soap case, aluminium sheet, wood,
viju milk containers, plastic pipe, paper and other materials he picsk
around his environment.
Below is how the man who met Bisi told the story:
"While in Otun-Ekiti a month ago, I met Bisi a young scientist,
innovator and inventor. Bisi is from a poor family in Aiyegbaju-Ekiti,
his mother operates a grounding machine and sells goods harvested from
her farm. His father is a mechanic, he repairs motor cycles (Okada).
"Where I sat at the ceremony I went for, I saw Bisi trying to
call attention of people he believed could give him money by using his
hand made fans to genarate cool breeze for them.
"What drew my attention to him was the material he used to make
the fans. The fans were made from Soap Case, Aluminum sheet, Wood,
VijuMilk Containers, Plastic Pipe, Paper, Wire and other materials he
picked around and assembled. The fans are operated with small tiger
batteries and are perfectly working.
"Later that day I spoke with Bisi's mother who told us that
Bisi is out of school. He stopped going to school in primary five and
walks around the town picking materials for his hand inventions and
takes them to ceremonies to raise money for his poor mother. This is
evidence in the fact that Bisi trekked from Aiyegbaju-Ekiti to
Otun-Ekiti where myself and Ibukun met him.
"Bisi is no doubt a child with so much potential and can be a
great scientist and inventor in nearest future if given opportunity to
go back to school."
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