EWB-WWU
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Engineers Without Borders-USA (EWB-USA) Projects help developing communities worldwide with their engineering needs, while involving and training internationally responsible engineers and engineering students. Engineers Without Borders at Walla Walla University (EWB-WWU) is a student chapter of EWB-USA.
Engineers Without Borders at Walla Walla University is committed to improving the world we live in, locally and abroad. We decided to take action and help the world through direct, lasting, and personal contributions to communities in the form of infrastructure and resource management.
Our local chapter was established in 2007 and currently has 30 active members. Their majors include Math, Biology, Humanities, Communications, Civil Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and others.
From 15-22 September 2008, a team from EWB-WWU went to the Luis Garcia Community school in Luis Garcia, Honduras to evaluate a project with local community leaders and engineers. This community was established after a devastating Hurricane Mitch in 1998 that leveled their former community and they moved to a location about 16 miles south of San Pedro Sula in the north-west part of the country.
The projects include improving a very inadequate sanitation system, expanding an elementary school, construction of a kindergarten facility, and developing a public health program. The project will be built in phases with a total estimated project cost of $100,000.00. All of these needs will be addressed with the cooperation and assistance of the local community and will be completed in a manner that will allow the local community members to maintain the projects themselves.
About EWB-USA
EWB is a non-profit international organization, organized in 2000 and currently includes student chapters on over 220 campuses, and nearly 100 professional chapters, and supports a growing membership of over 12,000.
Their Mission:
1. Assist developing communities worldwide with their self-identified engineering challenges.
2. Train internationally responsible engineering students.