 America is America today because of the pioneers who had the stage, the foundation for their country. And those countries they love, their country very much. So because they love their country very much, that has helped them to develop before they are today. But most of us as Africans, the moment we get something, we feel we don't belong to our community. Then we go somewhere where people have already deserved to be there earlier and to be part of that. So we have a long way to go. They now had to set aside a certain amount of money to fly myself from Africa to Europe. Was it your first time? It was my first time to go to Europe. So there in Europe I spent almost 45 days just to see what those guys are doing. Then I discovered that they are very successful because they add value to whatever they produce before they sell. So I said, well, we have fallacies in Malawi. We have a lot of low material in Malawi. Why can't I buy machinery so that they can be adding value to whatever I produce before I take it to the market? So the first thing I did was to buy a machine for processing timber. So after buying that machine, I did that business for some time. Then I said, well, I have managed to help cut down the trees. How can I help to replace them? So I had to find a way of replacing the trees which I had managed to cut it down. Then I left that business and went into other value-addition businesses. While I was doing that, I extended my family business in other areas. Then I have enough land that now I can do whatever I want to do. How many acres of farmland do you have now? Well, I have many. I have many acres. Being a farmer, while I was just a kid in land after land after land, then now I'm giving back because I'm bringing students from universities to come to my place and help them to build their capacities so that if they are done, then they have to go home with something so that they can start their own businesses. They call you an industrialist? Yeah, well, I'm everything. I'm a farmer. I'm an industrialist. Well, I do everything. So you have industries around that you can take with you to check it out? Yeah, well, I have a dairy company. I have a rice processing plant. Well, I'm doing anything possible to create jobs and train people so that they can start on their own. My next question is, how many jobs have you created so far? How many people? Well, I don't know how many people. I have some people working at the hospital. I have some people working at some processing plants. I'm doing anything possible to help people stand on their feet. Your whole goal is to make impacting people's lives? Yeah, well, I have already explained about my background. So I don't want people to go through the same way I went. So I have, at least to find a way, how can I help people to be successful in their lives? In my Bible, Matthew chapter 7 verse 12, they say, if you want people to respect you or if you need anything to do good to you, you have to start that yourself. Then people will fall. So now what I'm trying to do is, how can I come up with a platform where the young generation can start their business? How can I help those who don't have ability to do ABCD? So now that's my business. Where is this place? That's my first home. Your first home? That's when you left your parent house? Yeah, well, from the time when I left my parents' house, the first building was like that one. That one? That was my first building from the time when I left my father's home. So from there, after I was successful in my businesses and my operations, then that's when I came to build this one. At the same time, I built that white house, so it has just been renovated, but I built it for my father. Yeah. So after building that home, then I left this place. The reason was my father, he was very generous. All the money which he was getting was just distributing to the needy. So after I had started my business as a young man, I was living with him. So he would simply ask me, how much do we have in the bank? An amount, then he would just go and get half. So within two weeks all the money has been distributed to so many people. Then the other two or three weeks, he would say, what do we have? Go and get half. So within three months, we could learn out of money. By just giving to people? Just giving to the people who were asking him for help. So after learning what he was doing, then I said, well, I think I need to leave this place and go somewhere and rebuild myself so that I can withstand this situation. So I left this place, I went to in quarter quarter, which is about three, four hours from here. So I stayed in quarter quarter for a number of years until I was strong enough economically that I could stand within this situation. So I decided to come back, that was in 1991. So from 1991, then by then I had the tracks, I had my business doing very well. So instead of coming to the village, I had to stop at my DC trading center. Then at my DC, I became so successful that I decided to leave my DC for the capital, Sitaligonga. So I've been in Ligonga for many years. Now that's when I'm saying, OK, where do I come from? Then I have to go back now to square one. So now that building is representing this one. You came back to your roots. And you transformed the whole community. That's why I'm saying, I've come up with a plan. How can we make everybody prosperous in this area? So I'm targeting now 20 kilometers radius from this area and I have to involve everybody to transform. What are the things that you've done so far in the village since you came back? Well, I have managed to build roads. My aim is to develop this area. And when I'm done with this area, I think I will help other areas where I can. So I've managed to build all of these roads here. All the roads? Yeah, in this area. Does it mean it was a path? It was just a small path. So I had to grade them and grave them. And some small bridges. I think when we're going this side, there's a sizable river. I even built a 43-meter bridge. So I had to use the wood to build it. But big tracks used that. And this road is connecting the other road to this side. So now people have access to do business and other things using this road. You remember when you used to go to school without shoes? Yeah. So this was the path that you still use? Yeah, it was a small path. Were you not scared working in the bush those times? Well, since people were very friendly in those days, we were just afraid of animals. But the people were just very generous. So even bringing a car here, it was a challenge. Sometimes we could leave a car somewhere and walk five kilometers to our home. After we had already bought our own car. So I had to work on these things in order to improve this area. I've managed to build a police station somewhere. And now I'm building a second one here. I've managed to acquire money to build the school of agriculture. I've built this school in six months. What do you mean? You built the school in six months? Yeah. How? Well, I had built so many builders, so many laborers, and I had assigned them that if you build this, this is what I'll give you. So many people came. They started working and my tracks were busy holding bricks, sand, whatever. Wow. Yeah. You built the school with the community? Yeah, I built this school. Why the name School of Agriculture? For family independence? That people were dying of hunger in 2001. So I said, well, we have water. We have good climate. We have good land. Why can't we start using the resources which God has given us to solve our problems? So that's why I came up with an idea of building a school of agriculture. That's your father's name? Yeah, that's my father's name. And with Blake? Yeah, well, he's the one who had donated the money. Oh, okay. Yeah. I had asked him that I have this dream. So I have to build a school which will just be teaching people. Then he said, okay, I will assist you. So he gave me $250,000. So I had to use my blood to use that money to build the school. How many students have passed through this school? Each year, it's about 78 students. So, you know, we take families. So when I was saying 35 to 40, it means those were families. But since each one of them is a student, then you multiply by two. We come up with eight. So since 2006 to date, so many of you have gone through here. And their lives have changed. They have enough food, and they have built good homes. And some of them have even managed to buy cars. So this is a university? Well, it's something like a college. Yeah, where we just bring in at least one in the family should know how to light. Yeah. So just one person in the family needs to learn how to write. The rest is just oral. Does it mean there's no qualification to attend to this school? Well, here, you have to know how to write. That's it? Yeah, that's it. And what about the tuition? Well, what we do here is because we have people who have been helping the school with some funds. Then he comes in. We send tracts to collect his family and goods to this school. So when he comes here, we provide a home with electricity and water. We provide a fertilizer, seeds, whatever. Then he spends the whole year here. By the end of the year, after harvest, then he's asking just to leave two bags of rice at the tuition fee. You provide everything? We provide everything. So after providing everything, even transportation, and by the time he will be going back home, then we will collect some of his maize, some of his grandnats on the tracks, send him back to his original village, and we spend lots of money to do that. But for him to be proud that he had paid something, then he has to give it back to the banks. I want to see the accommodation you've created for them. Is it in the same school area? We have a dormitory over there. We have those small houses you have seen all over. Those are the houses for the farmers. So it means even the land, you provide land for them? Everything you provide for them, in order for them to learn. And the same thing is happening at the Santa. I told the people that our economy is agro-based economy. So being agro-based economy, it means those guys who are investors for agriculture, they are the guys who are supposed to be in forefront to develop the systems in the country. But when those guys complete their education, they just go back to their villages and they stay waiting for a job. So I'm saying, no, you guys come here. I will find a loan to support you to produce enough chickens, enough eggs, potatoes, tomatoes, whatsoever for one year. Then after one year, then we'll see how much money you have made. Then you give back all the expenses so that you can give back to the bank where you get the money. Then 70% of the process, the student has to take it home so that he can duplicate what he was doing in my campus. That way, now he will be creating jobs for each people. So in Twix, 55 students from University have come. They are at Santa. So now I'm saying, you guys, you can see that we have hunger because the rains were too heavy and the fertilizer was washed away. So what you should be seeing is that the people are going to suffer from the hunger which is looming. So you should not just be looking at the negative part of hunger. It is an opportunity for you to grow sweet potatoes, to grow some maize on irrigation so that by the time when people will have nothing, then you have a broader way of collecting so much money from the people and provide them with the food. Then you guys, from nothing, you are going to be something. They got nursery school in here. I mean, I even see playgrounds for kids. So definitely, indeed it's a nursery school. But I don't know if the kids are also learning about agriculture in here. Are the kids learning how to farm? Yeah, well, they just see their parents but the kids are taught what they are supposed to be taught. But as we bring the whole family, the mother and the father, they are in class, so the children learn here so that they can also learn what they are supposed to do. He has made sure that no family will be left out. So even if you have kids, they won't come here without going to school. Believe me, this is the best story I've ever done. Like I'm so blown away. I was not ready for this story. But what I keep hearing, I've seen they are using electricity and water. Do they pay for that too? No, they don't pay. You don't love that? Well, the school of agriculture, because of what we have been doing, we have some people who are sponsoring for the school. But I did everything. And now I'm looking at how can I empower this area economically. Because I've tried and many, many students, many, many students who had no fees in this area, they have been funded for more than 10 years. So we have many who have gone to university, to secondary school. Well, over a thousand students have been provided with fees from all over the region. You are also building a hotel with a mermaid lake right in front, which will attract so many people coming in here. Exactly. And I think I also have to come up with the fountains, water fountains, and also planning of having a lot of activities in this area so that the people in the long way and the other areas during weekends are able to be coming here and spend their time. What is the idea behind this hotel? Well, the idea is we have people with money in town and the other areas of the world. But how can they bring their money here? So that's why I said I think I have to put up something which should be very attractive so that when people come with money, our local people now can manage to sell their oranges. They have bananas, they have potatoes, whatever they produce. Then by the time these people will be living in this area, back to their village, at least a small amount of money, now our people will get it. Trust me, where the hotel is, if you tell me that, okay, come all the way from the long way to this place, I'll tell you I'm not coming. But when you get here, what you see, the air you breathe in, the surrounding, I mean, you won't believe that this is sitting in a village. This is the best place for you to stay. It's called... Calipano. Calipano. Yeah, Calipano means it is here. So you even built churches, different denominations or... Well, yeah. Are you a Catholic yourself? No. And you built a Catholic church? Well, I'm building anything in this area. I want this area to be a model. You know, I suffered a lot. So I had gone through such a difficult life that it's difficult to explain. So I should not let others go through the same. You've built a great legacy. Even though you're saying that you've done nothing, what I'm seeing, this is a great legacy, that it will forever remain so that can not come. Well, yeah, it seems to be like that. But you know, it takes one man to change the area. So I feel, if I could see this road paved, if I could see many graduates coming from this area, then when I'm gone, then I see that I have left some people who are taking my place and go ahead with me when I have left. So that's how I feel. Can you please adopt me? Well, I think what you are learning from me today will help you be like me. I love it. Thank you. Inside the same village, he has built a maize mill for the community for free. So the whole community comes in here to mill their maize. But even him, when he was growing up, he has to walk for a very long distance to go mill his maize. But this is what he has done for the villagers. He's touching a lot of lives in here, man. There was nothing like this in here. He built it for them. I have traveled over 20 countries in Africa, but I've never seen anyone who eats maize. That's a maize. That's not a rat. You know, in Ghana we eat rats, the bush one. Yeah, this is the bush one. This is the bush one? Yeah. This is from the bush? From the bush. They're too small. Yeah, well, from the bush they're too small, but the rats are big. Huh? Because the rats have all the food they need. So bush ones, they don't have enough food. They don't grow maize. So, did you roast this? Yeah, it's roasted. Roasted? Do we eat it? Ah, ah, ah. No, no, no. Not today. Not today. No, no, no. Not today. Ah! No, not today. So you sell it? Yeah. One one? Yes. How much is it? 200. 250? I'm sorry, man. I try everything. Yeah. But I don't want to try this one. I try everything. I don't want to try this one. Yeah, but... Ah! They call it the African Sausage. Yeah, African Sausage. African Sausage? Ah! Ah! You know, African Sausage. Cheese. Where do you find them? In the bush. In the bush? Yeah. Yeah. Cheese, man? Yeah. I'm sorry, man. I eat everything but this one? Yeah. I'm scared. Yeah. Nah! Yeah. Thank you. Yeah. Do you guys want to try it out?