[Ict4women] Housewife Designs Mobile Phone Charger - WOUGNET.org

[Sophia Huyer]

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Housewife Designs Mobile Phone Charger

Mrs. Muyonjo is a housewife in a remote village of Ivukula in Iganga  
district, Eastern Uganda. She used to ride her bicycle for twenty  
miles in order to come to the nearest small town with electricity to  
charge her mobile phone battery. Not any more.

One day, she fell victim to unscrupulous individuals. “I will never  
give my telephone to the village battery chargers again. I gave them  
my new phone for charging, and they changed my battery and instead  
returned to me an old battery whose battery life can only last for one  
day.” Unable to find the money or time to charge the battery daily,  
she decided to find an alternative charging solution. “I looked at  
what was readily available to me and came up with my own charger. I  
devised this method to enable me charge my battery every day. It works  
perfectly.”



She uses ordinary size D batteries that are readily available in the  
village to power radios and torches. She wraped five (5) batteries  
together, then removed the plug from the phone charger and attached  
the bare wires to the + and – terminals of the batteries.
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