9 Apr, 2024 | Blog, JOURNEY STORY
Feature image: Sadia Abdullah and her team at the Vanuatu Department of Water Resources during her year abroad as an EWB Australian Volunteers Program Field Professional. When Sadia Abdullah arrived in Vanuatu, the first thing she noticed was the heat and the...
26 Apr, 2023 | Blog, JOURNEY STORY, Meet our Futur-neers
Caption: EWB ACT Chapter Member, Eve Visser, gliding with the Richmond Gliding Club. As a high school student, Eve Visser was told by a career advisor that she shouldn’t consider university. However, Eve was determined not to let this dissuade her. She took it as...
7 Mar, 2023 | Blog, JOURNEY STORY, Meet our Futur-neers
Pictured: Erin running a Youth Outreach workshop with primary school students in the Torres Strait Growing up on a boat in the Torres Strait until she was 14, water was an integral part of Erin Hughes’ childhood. Today, it’s the focus of her work as an engineer. After...
30 Jan, 2023 | Blog, JOURNEY STORY, Meet our Futur-neers
Pictured: Arup-EWB Partnership Coordinator, Hannah Jury, is reaching for new heights in her role as a façade engineer. It’s not all calculations and writing reports when you’re an engineer. Sometimes you’re abseiling from some of the tallest buildings in Melbourne’s...
22 Dec, 2022 | Blog, JOURNEY STORY
Pictured: EWB Australia in Cambodia volunteer Kit Kann designing a prototype of the twin pit latrine system for the recently piloted hard ground sanitation project in Kampong Chhnang province. Volunteers are so important to EWB’s work. They dedicate time and...
16 Dec, 2022 | Blog, JOURNEY STORY
Harshana, Civil and Water Engineer Volunteering with the EWB Australia in Vanuatu team Harshana is part of EWB’s volunteer crew in Vanuatu, and is just one of the hundreds of volunteers across the EWB volunteer network! Volunteers dedicate time and effort to...