{"id":5051,"date":"2019-09-03T09:53:44","date_gmt":"2019-09-03T06:53:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=5051"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:31","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:31","slug":"kenyan-innovator-converting-trash-into-electric-wheelchairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/09\/03\/kenyan-innovator-converting-trash-into-electric-wheelchairs\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenyan Innovator Converting Trash Into Electric Wheelchairs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>By BBC Africa<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What started out as a\nhobby turned into a passion and is now a business for Lincoln Wamae. He makes custom\nelectric chairs using scrap materials he collects from junkyards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The self-taught innovator plans to one-day\nmass produce his designs and sell them all over Africa\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/av\/world-africa-49528426\/kenyan-innovator-converting-trash-into-electric-wheelchairs\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By BBC Africa What started out as a hobby turned into a passion and is now a business for Lincoln Wamae. He makes custom electric chairs using scrap materials he&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5052,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}