Frustrated about a social issue and want to fix it yourself? Jeff Nesbit tells us why innovators sharing these frustrations may become the ones who change the world!

When Laura Stachel watched physicians performing an emergency caesarian section during a research trip to Nigeria in 2008, something happened that stunned her. The lights went out. Stachel, an obstetrician, had a flashlight with her and the physicians finished the surgery. But during her trip, she watched this same sort of problem occur over and over.

What frustrated her was that this lack of electricity in medical settings in Nigeria (and other parts of sub-Saharan Africa) was commonplace. So she decided, somewhat reluctantly at first, to do something about it. She built a portable trunk equipped with solar panels that could provide electricity to maternity wards in developing countries like Nigeria.

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