Yaounde, Cameroon Africa. (Cameroon News) – A monk turned inventor creates useful items with the aim of improving lives in Southwest Cameroon.

Tangem Thomas is an inventor with a plethora of varied skills. He is a resident of the Mile 16, a small village near Buea in the Southwest of Cameroon. Tangem who was formerly a monk now focuses all his energy and skills into creating useful craftsmanship.

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Over the past few years, he has captured the minds and hearts of the local community with energy efficient cooking pots that employ solar energy, fuel efficient large scale cooking devices, multipurpose grinding mills made from scrap metal, multi-purpose filters and a whole gamut of other devices that are both energy saving as well as cost efficient.

He draws his inspiration from the basic truth that he is also a part of a community who are highly poverty stricken and struggle through every day of their lives to make ends meet. The condition of the community where he lives in is so pathetic that even access to clean and uncontaminated drinking water is a daily problem there.

The community that more or less depends on farming for their daily bread has benefited highly from the practical devices that he has invented which has helped them a lot to transform their produce into a form which makes storage as well as marketing a more feasible project.

The most noticeable fact of the inventions that he has made so far are that the inventions are not just practical but also energy efficient, sustainable and cost effective. Most of his inventions use renewable sources of energy like solar power which are available in vast quantities and hardly require electric power or fuels and hence are in tune with the requirements of this age.