Clean water is important. Just like a functioning sewer system. If these are missing or are in poor condition, diseases can spread and endanger health. In Western countries, access to clean water and a sewage system is common. Unfortunately, this is not the case everywhere in the world. The non-profit organization Engineers Without Borders is working with projects in Ethiopia, Cameroon and Tanzania, among others, to ensure that this is slowly changing.
A secondary girls' boarding school for around 240 students is to be built in Chonyonyo, Tanzania at the beginning of 2015. To ensure that the water supply is guaranteed until then, Engineers Without Borders has been working since January 2014 on installing several cisterns and pumps for water storage on the school campus. At the same time, future school staff will be trained in the use and maintenance of these. Further information about the project can be found here .
150 students and teaching staff share a latrine with a septic tank. This is currently still a reality at a primary school in Ebendi, Cameroon. In 2011 , Engineers Without Borders began replacing this latrine with seven separate toilets - which operate without water - and a urinal room. In addition, training improves the local people's general understanding of hygiene. More information about the project can be found here .
In the rural region of Afar, Ethiopia, the landscape is barren, plagued by drought and also threatened by overgrazing and deforestation. The (semi-)nomadic clans living there are forced to gradually expand their migration areas with their herds of cattle. This leads to more and more conflicts between the individual clans. Since December 2013 , Engineers Without Borders has been carrying out a project in the region, in which cisterns and micro-dams are built for water supply and fast-growing plants are cultivated. All with the aim of improving the quality of life of people and animals in Afar. More information about the project can be found here .
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Clean water is important. Just like a functioning sewer system. If these are missing or are in poor condition, diseases can spread and endanger health. In Western countries, access to clean water and a sewage system is common. Unfortunately, this is not the case everywhere in the world. The non-profit organization Engineers Without Borders eV
