hi everybody I am very happy to be here today because I am going to present you a very

special person whose name is Antony Mutua he is a graduate of Mombasa Polytechnic

University College. and after is graduation he had an amazing idea which ways to create a
shoe text charges phones a shoe that you could charge your phone with and no idea and very
few materials very few friends very few money but a lot of works, he managed to to develop
and ultra-thin ship of crystals that would generate electricity when put under pressure. how it
works is as you walk you generate pressure which generates energy in the shoe charger which
you can then use to charge a mobile phone. and this electricity can be harvested in two ways
firstly you can charge your phone while still in motion trough a thin extension cable that runs
from the shoe to the pockets the other way is to charge the phone immediately after you
walked because the Crystals have the capacity to store the electric energy. in 2012 his
innovation was presented during the innovation week taking place at the Kenya International
Conference Centre in Nairobi. and the technology was patented this same year which means
nobody can't copy is technology. he is now at the head of an early stage company which is not
making big profits but still manage to put the charging shoe on local the market the price of
$29. is company is now working pretty well you did not run out of business and he's attracting
more and more investors. already has overcome the biggest optical which was securing funds
and now is business is growing. he was in 2016 the monk Africa's top 100 influential youths but
I think he deserves more than that for three reasons. he managed to convert an idea into a
business, is innovation will impacts not only Africa but also the rest of the world and the
scientific field related to renewable energy, and finally he has proven to other Africans, to all
the African entrepreneurs that is possible in Africa to innovate and turn things around. this is
why I am nominating him for the African innovation awards. he has achieved the river, he
know has to achieve the sea, congratulations to him and I wish him all the best in the future
and I am looking forward to seeing his product reaching the European market. thank you very
much for listening to me and I wish you a very nice afternoon. thank you