02Sep 2022 by guest No Comments

New Project – El Sembrador School

International Projects
Unfortunately this summer brought our water distribution project, in Ecuador, to an end.  At the end of the day there were land ownership issues associated with the spring that the club was planning to use as the water source for the project. They could not be worked around, and we were left with no other viable option then to close out the project.  However, this also means we had the opportunity to start a new project. Our new project consists of making improvements to a school in Pasto Calle, Ecuador in the Cotopaxi province.  This school is a fiscal educational institution with the goal of expanding educational services in the area, by increasing the area's student capacity by 30%.  Currently a small classroom building and a latrine building have already…
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16Mar 2020 by guest No Comments

Winter 2020 Implementation Trip

International Projects
Earlier this month during quarter break (and luckily right before coronavirus shut everything down) we had the opportunity to send seven of our students and two mentors down to Ecuador to conduct a third assessment trip for our water distribution project in Ecuador.  Once in the country we met up with or NGO, Engineers in Action, who went to the community with us helping us with everything from logistics, to translating, to technical support. In the community we also were fortunate enough to receive help from local residents. On this trip we started to build the spring box in an effort to be able to better quantify the amount of water the spring we have selected as our water source for the project supplies. [gallery columns="2" size="medium" ids="3809,3797"] In addition,…
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12Oct 2016 by ewbrhit

EWB-RHIT Implements the Substructure for the Second Latrine

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In August of 2016, we traveled to the village of Gomoa Gyaman , Ghana for the fourth time since 2013. Our travel team consisted of six students, Camille Blaisdell, Rachel Broughton, Louis Campbell, Emily Haussmann, Andy Rhine, and Dhruv Vora, our technical mentor Jed Holt, and our faculty mentor Dr. Daniel Tetteh-Richter. On previous trips, we constructed one latrine and communicated with village elders to formulate a design to meet Gomoa Gyaman’s needs as serve as a source of pride. During this trip, we completed the substructure of the second latrine in the village. We also completed the superstructure of the first latrine since time restraints kept last spring’s travel team from finishing. The community, with the supervision of the team, painted the latrine and finished installing the plumbing, stall…
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18Jan 2016 by ewbrhit

Return to Ghana

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In just a few weeks, from February 25th to March 6th, we will be returning to Gomoa Gyaman, Ghana to finish constructing the latrine! Over the fall and winter, the latrine substructure remained covered and unused, waiting for the next phase of construction. We will make use of the lessons learned on last summer’s trip including quality and availability of materials and labor delegation. Currently, we are making sure all of our vaccinations are complete, developing a construction plan, and calculating the amount of material and labor required. This lengthy process includes all members of the club, not only those who will be travelling. This latrine will have 10 stalls and 2 handwashing stations. It will be constructed using CMU and mortar walls with a truss-style roof. Stalls will be…
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04Aug 2015 by ewbrhit

Ghana Go-Ahead

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The RHIT student chapter of EWB has been given final approval to travel to Ghana on their first implementation trip to the community of Gomoa Gyaman! It’s been since August 2013 that the chapter first traveled to Gomoa Gyaman on an assessment trip in which the team met with community leaders and residents to learn about the needs of the community. The team learned that the community suffers from a sanitation issue due to a lack of adequate places to go to the bathroom. Much of the community practices open defecation while using the limited privacy of brush and other plants. The bathroom facilities that do exist are in very poor condition and pose structural safety threats. Children in the community are at high risk of contracting fecal-born diseases as…
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18Sep 2013 by ewbrhit
EWB-RHIT begins new project in Gomoa Gyaman, Ghana

EWB-RHIT begins new project in Gomoa Gyaman, Ghana

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Having finished our program in the Dominican Republic (which included the construction of a septic system and retrofitting an existing building with a hurricane proof roof to increase the quality and quantity of care provided by a  medical clinic, as well as constructing latrines in a disease-ridden community nearby), our next program, starting this summer, will be in a brand new community. We will be returning to Ghana, this time to the community of Gomoa Gyaman, about 50 miles from our previous program in Obodan where we constructed a brooder house and a community center.  Everyone is very excited about the prospects of this collaboration and we can’t wait to see what working together over the next 5 years will lead to! The Gomoa Gyaman community has about 5,000 indigenous…
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18Sep 2013 by ewbrhit

EWB-RHIT completes construction in Batey Santa Rosa, Dominican Republic

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Our second implementation trip to Batey Santa Rosa in the Dominican Republic took place at the end of February, 2013. Our project’s goal in Batey Santa Rosa is to build twelve latrines for the community, which will help limit the spread of fecal-born parasites and disease. During our first implementation trip we constructed three latrines and over the next six months the community successfully built three latrines on their own, using the skills and knowledge that we taught them. The second implementation project was a one week trip where six students and two mentors inspected the latrines that they had built and then constructed three additional latrines; this brings the total number up to nine latrines, three shy of the project’s goal. Next year we will return to inspect the…
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