About Our Organization

After the success in 2022, the team moved onto a second bridge project with EIA, now helping to serve a community in the Rio Fisculco community in the Kainacas province of Bolivia. This was a collaborative effort between the University of Delaware, University of Iowa and the University of Western Ontario. The bridge was completed in Mid-August and now helps to serve a community of 250 as well as commuting schoolchildren in the area.

In the summer of 2022, a group of UD students worked through the spring semester, in collaboration with Georgia Tech and Eastern Mennonite University, to design a bridge for the Jatun Pampa community in Bolivia. The team traveled in early June and spent the summer building the bridge, which now serves the local community.

In 2021, EWB-UD partnered with Engineers in Action to start a new project with the community of Jatun Pampa, Bolivia. The goal of this project is to build a pedestrian suspension bridge allowing community members access to education and farms.

Over the course of two implementation trips during January of 2019 and 2020, the Philippines project team oversaw the construction of a water chlorination facility and placement of over 1000 meters of piping to distribute sanitized water to four tap stands spread throughout the community.

In 2019, the Malawi project team reached out to yet another set of communities in Malawi: Liti and Nkagula. That August, EWB-UD members completed an assessment trip in these villages to identify locations for a water source and meet key community members.

Between 2015 and 2018, the Philippines project team was hard at work laying the groundwork for their efforts in Ubujan. During this time, they embarked on three assessment trips which allowed them to foster a relationship with the community, assemble a Technical Advisory Board of experts in sustainable design and assesability.

Immediately after the implementation project in Mphero, EWB-UD partnered with the nearby community of Chilimani. In the summer of 2018, we oversaw the construction of two borehole wells and handpumps, drastically improving access to water for over one thousand community members.

After two assessment trips to determine the best way to help the Mphero community of Malawi, our Malawi project team completed an implementation trip in August 2016. On this trip, EWB-UD members oversaw the drilling and installation of a borehole well and hand pump within the village limits of Mphero.

EWB-UD began another new partnership with the community of Ubujan, Philippines in 2015. The goal of this project is to bring sanitary, potable water to the community members through the installation of communal taps and a sanitation system.

In 2014, EWB-UD began a new program with the Sakata region of Malawi, a country in Southeast Africa. This region includes five villages with varying needs. We elected to begin our project first in the village of Mphero, where potable water was the top concern.

After successful assessment, implementation of a concrete bridge, and monitoring of the community, EWB-UD’s partnership with the community of San Jose, Guatemala officially came to a close.

After successful assessment, implementation of a water sanitation and distribution system over seven trips, and monitoring of the community, EWB-UD’s partnership with the Bamendjou region of Cameroon officially came to a close.

EWB-UD’s project in San Jose, Guatemala began in 2008. The purpose of this project was to construct a bridge over a river in the community that became flooded and impossible to travel over in the rainy season.

EWB-UD’s first official project began in Bamendjou, Cameroon in 2007. The goal of the project was to increase the quality, quantity, and access to clean drinking water in two villages in the region.

The late Dr. Steve Dentel, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, founded the University of Delaware chapter of Engineers Without Borders in 2006.

Dr. Bernard Amadei, Professor of Civil Engineering at University of Colorado Boulder, teamed up with eight of his students and another civil engineering expert to engineer a water sanitation and distribution system for the community of San Pablo, Belize. This was the first EWB-USA project. Dr. Amadei officially founded EWB