For Ethiopian aeronautical engineer Lydia Elias, building and piloting a drone to support humanitarian and development projects on the continent of her birth has been a lifelong dream
LILONGWE - .The institute is in Malawi, and builds on the work of a pilot scheme launched in 2017 with support from U.N. children’s fund UNICEF, in which drones have been used to deliver medical supplies, monitor crops and map cholera outbreaks.
“Aeronautical engineers are very few in my country,” said Elias, 23, as she set off to practice piloting a drone. She and 25 others from across Africa are the first batch of students at the academy, which opened outside the capital Lilongwe this month.Other students share Elias’s excitement.
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