2. BUILDING A BETTER WORLD
ENGINEERS WITHOUT BORDERS-USA
BUILDING A BETTER WORLD

3. WHO ARE WE? We are leaders.
EWB-USA supports community-driven development programs worldwide, collaborating with local partners to design and implement sustainable engineering projects, while creating transformative experiences and responsible leaders.
Our passion is to make a difference.
Doctors without Borders
Student and Professional Chapters
MIT, BU, NorthEastern,WPI, Harvard, Tufts
EWB-USA has changed the lives of millions of people around the world, with 350 projects in over 45 developing countries.

4. HOW WE WORK Our chapters make a five year commitment to a community.
EWB-USA carries out small-scale infrastructure projects, initiated by the community in need, within an overall community framework.
Our projects are socio-culturally appropriate and community owned to ensure long-term sustainability.
3 principles
EWB-USA programs are full partnerships with a host community and one or more local NGOs. These partnerships are the basis of a long-term relationship to assure the community’s needs are sustainably met.

5. TANZANIA PROJECT Project started in Spring 2011
First visit to Tanzania in July by two team members:
Met with Minister of the Environment and other local officials
Visited 3 villages that were potential candidates for projects
Met with villagers and assessed needs of communities
“Please bring us water!”
5 countries of East Africa
DRC – Ta
Kilimanjaro, Serengeti, Gombe Stream, Zanzibar
Unified 1960’s, politically stable. GDP per person (PPP) = $1500 (US = $45000)
Trip to northern Tz last year
Min. of Environment, Dodoma region, deforestation

6. TANZANIA PROJECT Current Status and Next Steps
Decided to focus on water project first.
Will start with a simple, “easy” project first to gain confidence of village and better understand their needs
Rainwater catchment will likely be the first project
Further projects may include pumps and boreholes for water, solar disinfection of water, solar panels for basic power, biogas generators and cooking stoves
Team has 35 members, and has divided into two based on geography:
Mapinduzi Village (Worcester)
Mkutani Village (Cambridge)
+ Technical-expert groups
Next trip tentatively planned for February 2012
Sandy soil, 100 m water table, 4 months rain (500 mm)
Start with simple things, go on to boreholes.
Help people and organisations to help themselves. Dumping money doesn’t work. Place littered with broken pumps, mainly organizational problems.
Easily found 35 people.
Develop businesses, develop financing. PPP $1500 per year.

7. You can tell when it’s nearly lunchtime: there’s smoke billowing out of the doorway.

8. And inside the smoke is so thick you can hardly take a photo.

9. And women have to walk miles to fetch wood.

10. They may have to walk miles to fetch water too

11. Even further today.

12. But with planning, goodwill and determination,

13. Teams can be formed to build stoves, using local materials
Teams can be formed to build stoves, using local materials. With a stove like this to cook on, wood consumption is reduced by 50%, and smoke and carbon monoxide are reduced by 90%.

14. There’s no electric power in most villages, but a solar panel and a battery . . .

15. . . . Provides light for the whole evening . . .

16. And mobile-phone recharging
. . . And mobile-phone recharging. No more need to go into town: and she can earn a few shillings by charging her neighbours’ phones too.

17. With a gutter and tank system to catch the rains, this dispensary (village health centre) could have 160 litres of water per day throughout the dry season.

18. CHALLENGES Efficient cheap designs Effective lines of communication
Funding: as far as possible, everything will be funded locally
Maintenance, in the long term
Business development
Local and national politics
Fitting in with tribal culture

19. IN 3 YEARS
Reliable water (at least 75 litres per day per person) for everybody in Mkutani and Mapinduzi.
Cooking stoves, biogas plants and solar-power systems being installed in the two villages.
Good relationships with local and national governments and other NGO’s.
Training schemes running smoothly.
Funding sources, including villagers’ savings schemes, running smoothly.

20. IN 15 YEARS
20% of villagers in Dodoma region will be Red Sox supporters.
Ten teams of EWB Boston engineers, each working in one village, responding to the unique requirements of that village
Local businesses supplying all materials and performing installations and maintenance.
Measurable improvements in health and wealth of villagers in Mkutani and Mapinduzi.

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