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                                bit
                                 He built his windmill from bits of his dad's old bicycle.  | 
                        
                                charge
                                 The villagers use the electricity to charge their mobiles.  | 
                        
                                cholera
                                 With the rain came cholera and some of the villagers died of the disease.  | 
                
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                                co-author
                                 William has co-authored a book with another writer.  | 
                        
                                crazy
                                 When William said he would make a windmill, people thought he was crazy.  | 
                        
                                crops
                                 There wasn't any rain, so their crops didn't grow and they couldn't make bread.  | 
                
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                                educate
                                 William didn't go to school, so he tried to educate himself.  | 
                        
                                farmer
                                 The farmers grow crops for food and keep cows for milk and meat.  | 
                
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                                school
                                 You have to pay a fee of £50 to go to school.  | 
                        
                                generate
                                 He built a windmill to generate electricity for his village.  | 
                        
                                ahead
                                 He made a small test windmill and then went ahead with a big one.  | 
                
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                                go
                                 Has he gone back to school?  | 
                        
                                food
                                 Their small stock of food went down and down until there was almost nothing to eat.  | 
                        
                                go
                                 If something goes on, it continues.  | 
                
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                                go
                                 If something goes up, it rises or increases.  | 
                        
                                home-made
                                 It's a home-made windmill – he built it himself.  | 
                        
                                It's
                                 It's too soon to answer that question – it's early days.  | 
                
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                                Leadership
                                 He said that he was a student at the African Leadership Academy in South Africa.  | 
                        
                                media
                                 The media – newspapers, television and radio – are all interested in William's story.  | 
                        
                                phenomenal
                                 The media interest has been phenomenal.  | 
                
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                                pump
                                 His family could have electric light and could pump water.  | 
                        
                                secondary school
                                 William was only fourteen years old but he didn't go to secondary school.  | 
                        
                                starvation
                                 William's family didn't have enough food, so his dog died of starvation.  | 
                
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                                stock
                                 Their small stock of food got smaller and smaller.  | 
                        
                                villager
                                 There was no food in the village and some of the villagers died.  | 
                        
                                windmill
                                 The windmill moves around in the wind and generates electricity.  | 
                
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                            cholera
                                 cholera  | 
                        
                            een mobieltje opladen
                                 een mobieltje opladen  | 
                        
                            stukje / onderdeel
                                 stukje / onderdeel  | 
                
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                            gewas
                                 gewas  | 
                        
                            gek
                                 gek  | 
                        
                            coauteur
                                 coauteur  | 
                
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                            boer
                                 boer  | 
                        
                            scholen
                                 scholen  | 
                        tientallen | 
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                            doorgaan met
                                 doorgaan met  | 
                        
                            opwekken / voortbrengen
                                 opwekken / voortbrengen  | 
                        
                            leergeld / collegegeld
                                 leergeld / collegegeld  | 
                
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                            doorgaan
                                 doorgaan  | 
                        
                            voedsel
                                 voedsel  | 
                        
                            teruggaan
                                 teruggaan  | 
                
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                            Het is nog vroeg dag / pril
                                 Het is nog vroeg dag / pril  | 
                        
                            zelfgemaakt
                                 zelfgemaakt  | 
                        
                            toenemen
                                 toenemen  | 
                
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                            overweldigend / fenomenaal
                                 overweldigend / fenomenaal  | 
                        
                            media
                                 media  | 
                        
                            bestuur / leiderschap
                                 bestuur / leiderschap  | 
                
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                            verhongering
                                 verhongering  | 
                        
                            middelbare school
                                 middelbare school  | 
                        
                            pompen
                                 pompen  | 
                
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                            windmolen
                                 windmolen  | 
                        
                            dorpeling
                                 dorpeling  | 
                        
                            voorraad
                                 voorraad  |