Meet young Guled Adan Abdi, the 13 year-old Somali boy inventor from the northern town of Buuhoodle, Somalia.
He is a self-taught inventor who makes plastic motorised toys from trash, something he learnt to do by studying real cars. So far, Abdi has a few electronic toys – trucks, fans, planes – to his name, all made out of plastic from old cooking oil containers.
Abdi spends hours after school working on his inventions, which he moves around by connecting to a battery-powered control box.
His innovations are supported by his school teacher, Asha Ahmed Omar, who encouraged him to keep inventing and experimenting, daily. She even bought him his first batteries to motorise his toys.
Thanks to Mrs. Omar, Abdi’s reputation spread both within and outside Buuhoodle. Recently, the teenager received the grand invitation to Garowe to the meet with the president of the Puntland regional state, President Abdiweli Mohamed Ali. Amazed by the inventions of the 13-year old, President Ali promised Abdi a scholarship by the Puntland government.
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