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Building a reliable water supply for the residents of Darlau, Timor-Leste
Caption: Darlau residents supporting the construction of the permanent water supply system. In Darlau, a village in Timor-Leste, collecting water was until recently a slow and physically demanding task. Every day, residents would trek to the only springwater supply...
Northern Rivers floods engineering response paves way for future emergency support
Pictured: A severe slip in the region is slowly being revegetated, with debris flow assessment and analysis required to inform future inundation heights and suitability of potential remedial options A year after the floods that devastated communities in the Northern...
Regioneering on the road again
Pictured: A Youth Outreach workshop at a primary school in Western Australia. From Busselton on the southwest edge of Australia to the Torres Strait Islands in the far north, EWB Australia’s Regioneering program sprung well and truly back into action in 2022.Through...
International Volunteer Managers Day – One Job, Many Hats!
International Volunteer Managers Day – One Job, many hats! A reflection and thank you from Jacqui Bell, Member & Volunteer Engagement TeamWhen we identified that there was an ‘international’ day for acknowledging volunteer managers around...
ATEC* Biodigester receives International social enterprise award
ATEC* Biodigester recognised as South East Asia’s number one Social Enterprise for 2016. Social Enterprise receives award at the Sankalp South East Asia Summit ATEC* Biodigester, the social enterprise developed from EWB Australia’s...
A day in the life of a Field Professional – Part 4.
A Day in the Life - An EWB Field Professional experience in Phnom Penh - Part 2By Lachlan Guthrie - originally published on his blog. This is An, he is one of the most fascinating people that I have met in-country. I was just walking down the road one day...
A day in the life of a Field Professional – Part 3.
A Day in the Life - An EWB Field Professional experience in Phnom Penh - Part 2By Lachlan Guthrie - originally published on his blog. This week I will hopefully try to complete the first output of my placement. I will be running a survey with the staff as...
A day in the life of an EWB Field Professional – Part 2.
A Day in the Life - An EWB Field Professional experience in Phnom Penh - Part 2By Lachlan Guthrie - originally published on his blog. The last few weeks have been really exciting, getting really stuck into my work at RainWater Cambodia and heading out to a...
A day in the life of an EWB Field Professional
A Day in the Life - An EWB Field Professional experience in Phnom Penh.By Lachlan Guthrie - originally published on his blog. Recently I have been given an amazing opportunity to represent EWB Australia in Cambodia, working with our long term partner RainWater...
EWB Connect – Creating a pro bono culture in engineering
Leadership at all levels - Creating a pro bono culture in engineeringA meeting of the Community of Practice for Pro Bono Systems.By Sarah Matthee, Former EWB Corporate Coordinator Last week, a group of twenty engineering sector representatives from around...
Creating first year change agents with the EWB Challenge
Using the EWB Challenge to program to create global citizens by introducing them to humanitarian engineering. Imagine you have just finished high school, started first-year university and signed up for the EWB Challenge. Despite the fact you were at school only a...
Lazio Miranda – Introducing a Timor-Leste leader
Lazio Miranda - Introducing a Timor-Leste leader.“I chose engineering, because I wanted to contribute to the infrastructure development of my young country.”Meet Lazio Miranda, a Production Engineer with Community Housing Limited (CHL). CHL is...
Developing Global Citizens – EWB’s Design Summit Program
Developing global citizens and empathic humans - EWB's Design Summit program Public speaking can be a daunting experience, especially if you are talking about some of the worlds' greatest social and environmental challenge and you are speaking to those affected most....
Pete’s CEO Blog No. 1
Get the latest from National Office with CEO Pete Baynard-Smith's fortnightly blog. This fortnight I have been travelling to Sydney and Canberra, including preparing for the National Council Collaboration is Key event which we are now able to...
From Student to Field Professional – Becky Watt’s EWB Story
From Student to Field Professional: Becky Watts talks about her journey with EWB Australia When ANU student Becky Watts first started her engineering degree, she never imagined she’d land her first job in a city more than 7000 kilometres across the world. But the...
New Colombo Plan – Funding students to travel and learn with EWB
The New Colombo Plan - Funding students to travel and learn with EWB Australia.By Mikaela Day (Reproduced with permission from Mojo Correspondent)The opportunity for Australian university students to travel as part of their degree while leaving a sustainable...
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