engineers without borders ewb-usa founded in 2002 by dr. bernard amadei (cu prof.) ewb-usa has over...
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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
Millennium Development Goals
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.
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.
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.
The World of Unsafe Drinking Water
• 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.
The Global Water Crisis
• Health• Education • Economy• Development• Equity• Peace
What is water?
Ilam District, Nepal
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
Ilam, Nepal•Tea and “cash crops” (cardamom, ginger, potatoes)
• District Population of 280,000
•City population of 20,000
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
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
Community Partner - NCDC• Namsaling Community Development Center
• Founded in 1984
• EWB has partnered with NCDC since EWB’s inception
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
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
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
Questions?