Engineers Without Borders

Mother Nature Reveals One of Poverty’s Faces: Vulnerability

By Luke Brown, an Engineers Without Borders student sponsored by CWN

Back in June, the people of the Upper East Region of Ghana were praying for rain. It wasn’t coming, and everyone worried about their crops. Ghanaian farmers depend almost entirely on the rain for their irrigation. When [...]

The Truth Doesn’t Make a Noise: The urgent need for water in Malawi

By Brett Stevenson, an Engineers Without Borders student in Malawi, sponsored by CWN
Clean water. It falls from the sky, flows freely from our taps and showers our lawns.
In Canada water is simply something we have always expected and will continue to expect throughout our lifetimes. And why not? Water [...]

Separating Action from Impact in Rural Ghana

The Canadian Water Network is supporting an Engineers Without Borders student as she lives and works in Ghana for a year.
Robin Farnworth is applying her engineering skills to numerous projects, helping local communities and farmers become self-sufficient. Please take a moment read more about Robin’s [...]

Canadian Engineering Student Makes a Big Difference in Ghana

The Canadian Water Network is supporting an Engineers Without Borders student as she lives and works in Ghana for a year.
Robin Farnsworth is hoping to apply her engineering skills to numerous projects, helping local communities and farmers become self-sufficient. Please take a moment read more about Robin’s projects and progress.
The [...]

Making a difference in international development: my year in Ghana

The Canadian Water Network is supporting an Engineers Without Borders student as she lives and works in Ghana for a year.
Robin Farnsworth is hoping to apply her engineering skills to numerous projects, helping local communities and farmers become self-sufficient. Please take a moment read more about [...]

More than Just Wells

CWN proudly supports Engineers Without Borders student, Trevor Freeman, who is working for the next year in Zambia with WaterAid, the world’s leading NGO dedicated exclusively to the provision of safe water, sanitation and hygiene education.
Trevor earned his bachelor’s degree in environmental engineering from [...]