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Engineers Without Borders USA is an international nonprofit humanitarian organization established to support community-driven development programs worldwide. Our chapter’s goal is to design and implement sustainable engineering projects for communities in need.
Currently, we are working on an international project to provide a community located in Kenya with a sustainable water supply system. A community of around 1,600 people located in Ndonyo, Kenya, struggles with obtaining clean water, and they need our help with establishing their own water supply system.
Not only do we work on our international project, but we have many different local projects. We hope to take a small team to Kenya this May to work on our international project, and we need funding for flights, in-country transportation, a translator, testing materials and construction materials. A majority of our financial needs come from the Kenya project, particularly the costs of construction and travel, so the funds raised from Giving Day will be directly applied to the community. By giving students hands-on experience in engineering and leadership in global and local projects, EWB-SMU truly lives up to SMU’s mission statement and ensures that world changers are shaped here.
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Our most recent local project aims to extract electricity from plant life through plant microbial fuel cells, or P-MFCs, that we eventually hope to implement into campus life at SMU. We also do community outreach by partnering with local community gardens, such as designing a hydroponic garden at 4DWN skate park. Not only do our projects give communities engineering-based solutions, but they also provide transformative experiences for our EWB members that build strong technical skills and essential leadership skills. To give our members these life-changing experiences, sufficient funding is crucial.