By Sam Penrod
KSL News
June 18th, 2008

A humanitarian-aid project is bringing electric light to an area of the world that has never seen electricity before.

It was coordinated by some BYU engineering students who just returned from Ghana where the project was completed.

The students helped a Utah company that designed a small power generator. It's powered by school children as they play on playground equipment that they've also never seen before.

The village in Ghana has its first merry-go-round, but more importantly, the first electricity. The power is generated by young children playing on the playground. [More]

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