Tomorrow I'll be heading to Uganda with a team of 12 from our UMN chapter of Engineers Without Borders. We'll be working with Uganda Rural Fund near the city of Masaka in western Uganda to install a groundwater system at the Hope Integrated Academy. Its a great school and organization that I encourage you to read up about (http://www.tc.umn.edu/~ewb/projects_uganda.php). Tinker around this site and you can find all kinds of neat info.
Our primary goals are in the installation of this system, a site survey and a health assessment conducted by two public health students traveling with us.
We are all excited and the first challenge we are sweating is logistical... getting 12 people and equipment, gear, pumps, toilets (yes, toilets) to a remote rural site in western Uganda. I'll let you know how things go.
I'll also be spending some time with good friends from Engineering Ministries International in Kampala (www.emiea.org) so very excited about this. EMI-East Africa is where the gameboarding began!
Stay tuned for project updates and photos!
3 comments:
Hi Adam,
good to see you today. We'll keep checking for updates and photos!
hoping you are there safe. also hoping the toilets made it.
So curious to hear how it's going!
Hope the food is good :)
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