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Engineers Without Borders

Engineers Without Borders. EWB-USA Founded in 2002 by Dr. Bernard Amadei (CU Prof.) EWB-USA has over 300 chapters around the nation Over 350 projects in 45 developing countries 180 University campuses with student chapters Why work with EWB Professional experience Recruitment

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Engineers Without Borders

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  1. Engineers Without Borders EWB-USA Founded in 2002 by Dr. Bernard Amadei (CU Prof.) EWB-USA has over 300 chapters around the nation Over 350 projects in 45 developing countries 180 University campuses with student chapters Why work with EWB Professional experience Recruitment Projects often considered comparable to internships Learn about new cultures, have new experiences, create lasting friendships

  2. Millennium Development Goals

  3. Millennium Development Goals • Eradicating extreme poverty and hunger, • Achieving universal primary education, • Promoting gender equality and empowering women, • Reducing child mortality rates, • Improving maternal health, • Combating HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases, • Ensuring environmental sustainability, and • Developing a global partnership for development.

  4. Millennium Development Goals • Eradicating extreme poverty and hunger, • Achieving universal primary education, • Promoting gender equality and empowering women, • Reducing child mortality rates, • Improving maternal health, • Combating HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases, • Ensuring environmental sustainability, and • Developing a global partnership for development.

  5. Millennium Development Goals • Eradicating extreme poverty and hunger, • Achieving universal primary education, • Promoting gender equality and empowering women, • Reducing child mortality rates, • Improving maternal health, • Combating HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases, • Ensuring environmental sustainability, and • Developing a global partnership for development.

  6. The World of Unsafe Drinking Water

  7. The Global Water Crisis • 884 million people do not have access to safe drinking water • Every day, nearly 6,000 people die from water-related illnesses, and the vast majority are children. • Diarrhoeal disease alone amounts to an estimated 4.1% of the total DALY global burden of disease and is responsible for the deaths of 1.8 million people every year (WHO, 2004). It was estimated that 88% of that burden is attributable to unsafe water supply, sanitation and hygiene and is mostly concentrated on children in developing countries.

  8. What is water? • Health • Education • Economy • Development • Equity • Peace

  9. Ilam District, Nepal

  10. Ilam District, Nepal • 25% live below international poverty line of $1.25 per day • 39% Infant Mortality Rate • 30% children are able to attend school • 27% improved sanitation facilities (anything not a hole in the ground) • 35% treatment of Diarrhea with oral rehydration salts • 29% Comprehensive knowledge of HIV

  11. Ilam, Nepal • Tea and “cash crops” (cardamom, ginger, potatoes) • District Population of 280,000 • City population of 20,000

  12. What EWB Caltch can do • Spring Source Protection • Health Survey • Sustainability Education • Teaching students about drinking water management • Hydropower • Improved Cooking stoves • Bio-gas generation

  13. What can you do • Design Work • Technical engineering work • Construction management • Operation and maintenance • Development and implementation of operation program • Fundraising • Grants, events, presentations • Education • Sustainability of project • Working in schools with children • Health and Sanitation outreach

  14. Community Partner - NCDC • Namsaling Community Development Center • Founded in 1984 • EWB has partnered with NCDC since EWB’s inception

  15. Construction of the System • Worked with a partner NGO– NCDC- and other local groups to construct the system • NCDC – Project managers • EWB CalTech – System designers and water system experts • Ilam Municipality, Development Fund, SIMEN – may provide financial support for materials

  16. Education and Sustainability in Local Schools • Goal: Familiarize students and community with the relationship between clean water, human health, and environmental integrity • Promote understanding of technology, and why implementing water treatment methods (such as spring source protection, reed bed) are important for health, environment, community • Work with students of all ages at various schools • Activities included: hands-on interaction with Enviroscape™ educational model, field trips, water testing (local water sources, reed bed at NCDC office), investigation of reed bed process at NCDC office, at-home water treatment options, hand washing

  17. General Expenses $250 - Cost for one student to stay with a Nepali family for the summer $300 - Domestic flight in Nepal $1800 - International flight from Colorado to Nepal

  18. Questions?

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