Documentary chronicles engineers’ partnership in Guatemalan quest for water
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April 2021 - In fall 2020, members of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Engineers Without Borders (EWB-UW) student chapter concluded a project that brought clean water to 130 homes in the rural community of Zapote, Guatemala; the largest water distribution project ever undertaken by an EWB student chapter.
Now, a full-length documentary film, El Proyecto La Dignidad, chronicles the UW-Madison student chapter’s strong and equal partnership with residents of Zapote as they together strove to solve the community’s water challenges. |
Engineers Without Borders brings water and solar to people in need
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April 2021 - The people of Zapote, Guatemala, now have reliable access to clean water thanks to the work of the University of Wisconsin-Madison student chapter of Engineers Without Borders (EWB). The project concluded in fall 2020 and is the culmination of an effort that started in 2017. More than 100 UW-Madison students and townspeople created a water system in Zapote with about 130 house connections and two distribution tanks.
In addition to its work in Guatemala, the UW-Madison EWB chapter concluded work on a project at the Hogar Albergue de Niños Jesús de Nazaret children’s shelter in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico. It’s the chapter’s first project in Puerto Rico after establishing connections on the island in 2018. |
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Engineers Without Borders needs help, hosts virtual fundraising event
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April 2021 - "Typically we host an in-person annual fundraising banquet, but due to the ongoing pandemic, we are hosting a virtual fundraising campaign, EWBeUnited. Our goal this year is to raise $10,000 to support our four projects, ranging from providing clean water to generating solar energy," said Ryan Docter, President of the EWB UW-Madison Chapter. "As a non-profit and student organization, we rely on the generosity from the local community to continue to advocate for communities in need abroad."
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CALCULATED CHANGE - MAPC MEMBER CREATES PODCAST THAT INSPIRES
MICHAEL PADDOCK'S BRIDGING BARRIERS
Engineers Without Borders and Blue Planet Energy Bring Reliable and Affordable Electricity to Children’s Shelter in Puerto Rico
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Oct. 2020 - Rebuilding Puerto Rico after the devastation of Hurricane Maria in 2017 has remained a key initiative of Blue Planet Energy, and supplying reliable power has taken shape in many forms: including job training, disaster relief partnerships and, most recently, equipment donations.
On a mission to provide relief to those who have the greatest need, EWB-UW Puerto Rico collected donations to install a solar-plus-battery system at Hogar Albergue para Niños Jesús de Nazaret, a children's shelter in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico. |
Grad student helping organize PPE production, COVID response in developing countries
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July 2020 - Rebecca Alcock is playing a leading role in a large-scale, United Nations-backed effort to mobilize production of personal protective equipment (PPE) and more in developing countries around the world amid the COVID-19 pandemic. She is leading a small team that’s consulting with government officials, healthcare systems leaders and local manufacturers in developing countries around the world on design and production of PPE like face shields and masks, medical equipment such as ventilators, and water, sanitation and hygiene infrastructure.
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Engineering With Heart: It Started With a Pinky Swear
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June 2020 - Mike Paddock, Jess Thayer and Rebecca Alcock lead a team to manufacture personal protective equipment in Guatemala during the COVID-19 response. It is a joint program between Engineers Without Borders USA and the Guatemala Rotary. In only five weeks, the team of a dozen biomedical volunteers developed, prototyped, approved, produced and shipped hundreds of thousands of PPE to the hospitals before the anticipated peak of caseloads arrived.
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Making a difference: Madison makers build safety equipment for frontlines of COVID-19 fight
Engineers Without Borders Travel to Puerto Rico 2020
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March 2020 - In January 2020, MAPC members Alberto Cordero and Amanda Pustis traveled to Puerto Rico with the University of Wisconsin (UW) EWB students. This was the second assessment trip to Puerto Rico for the organization and project, and while they were on the island, they experienced the start of the earthquake swarms that have been shaking the island for weeks.
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Water Supply and Distribution in Guatemala: We Have the Responsibility to Impact Others (TEDx Talk)
ACS Attends EWB UW-Madison 2019 Banquet
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April 2019 - MAPC member Steve Klick and his colleagues, Matt Thiel (MAPC member), Daryl Rothamer, Randy Rozema and Bob Roth, represented ACS at the 2019 EWB annual fundraising banquet which was held at the UW-Madison Memorial Union. They listened to the amazing work that the EWB students accomplished in the last year and their future goals.
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Engineers Without Borders Visits Puerto Rico
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March 2019 - The UW-Madison EWB chapter, with the help of MAPC mentors, is designing a photovoltaic solar array for a children’s shelter, Hogar Albergue para Niños Jesús de Nazaret, in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico. This shelter offers housing, food, transportation, education, social, and psychological services to children up to the age of 11, who are victims of abuse or neglect.
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