Completed – Engineers Without Borders

11th February 202114th February 2024

Drinking water supply, Paraguay

The project started in 2015 in the small indigenous village Hugua Chini in the middle of the Chaco of Paraguay. After an in-depth evaluation trip in 2016 to Hugua Chini, a pilot project for biosand filters and rainwater harvesting and its evaluation in 2017/2018, we had to diversify the focus of [...]

28th March 202014th February 2024

Hospital extension for Gynaecology & Obstetrics

In the rural regions of southern Nepal, on the border with India, a large part of the population lives without access to medical care. The rapidly rising birth rate is already pushing the hospital to its limits. In order to counteract the negative effects and to specialize and equip the existing [...]

1st September 201717th June 2018

Colonia Dora (Secondary School), Argentina

The Argentinean economy has been on a decline and the country continues to struggle with high public debt and hyperinflation. In addition, the needs of the rural population are not being met by the centrally organised government. The province of Santiago del Estero is located in northern [...]

31st August 201517th June 2018

La Florida, Quilmes, Argentina

The existing kindergarten in Villa La Florida was visited daily by 80 children aged 2-5 years. The building (about 110m2) also serves as a multi-functional room (SUM, or salón de usos múltiples). Beside child care activities, the SUM hosts activities for the community (such as workshops, courses, [...]

1st May 201417th June 2018

Colonia Dora (Bridge), Argentina

[slideshow_deploy id='359'] Idea In the course of the master's program, our group of civil engineering students wished to use our acquired knowledge in the form of a project in the field of development aid. In the search for a suitable project, we asked various national subsidiaries of "Engineers [...]

31st January 201117th June 2018

Srikakulam, India

Approximately 30km north of the town of Srikakulam in the province of Andhra Pradesh, the local NGO Rural Self Development Trust (RISDT, www.risdt.org) runs a farm which serves to train local farmers in ecology and sustainable agriculture. On the farm, an orchard is cultivated on an area of [...]