Low-tech, Low-cost Device Transforms A Nation's Economy

"The MoneyMaker helps the country's struggling farmers put food on the table, and it gives them a foothold in the country's fledgling market economy. More family farmers have goods to take to market, where they can earn the cash needed to expand their operations, hire workers, buy a cow, and invest in new businesses by purchasing, say, a sewing machine. In some areas, the pump is slowly, subtly shifting traditional social roles. To Martin Fisher and Nick Moon, Approtec's founders, the pump is the agent of a new economy, and the force behind nothing less than a social revolution."