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Help Bring Engineering Solutions to Tanzania

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We are a passionate group of students who would greatly appreciate your contribution of any size! Please read about our projects below and see how your donation would help us on our journey to bring engineering solutions to the small village of Mkutani, Tanzania:

$25 covers the cost for a solar manual.

$60 covers the cost of ground transportation and a student's meals for a week in Tanzania.

$100 covers the cost of Visa allowing a student to travel.

$250 covers the flight from Dar es Salaam to Dodoma

$500 covers cost of our translator and in country contact.

$1500 covers a land survey.




Our Project: Solar Education


Last summer, we traveled to Mkutani to install a solar powered water pump. Now that we have left, it is essential the community members have a way of maintaining this unfamiliar technology without needing to call an outside source. As a result, we have produced a Solar Powered Water Pump Manual. Furthermore, on our previous visit we spoke to the District Water Engineer who told us that other villages in the area are now also transitioning to solar power. This summer, we will be holding a training session for engineers and community members throughout the region and providing copies of our manual. 

 

How You Can Help

Your donation helps us pay for travel reimbursements, manual printing costs, and costs for running the training session. Feel free to contact us with questions!





Assessment for Other Projects

The members of our chapter are working on a variety of other project in the community of Mkutani that are currently in the assessment stages. During this trip, we will be talking to the community about their needs in order to continue these projects.

Female Sanitation Team:

At the present, girls miss a great deal of school in Mkutani due to a shortage of pads. The Female Sanitation Team has been hard at work this semester making contacts in and out of country to help them develop a sustainable method for managing periods. The solution needs to be financially and environmentally sustainable so the team has been investigating natural fiber methods for creating pads. Going on this trip will allow our team to talk to the women in Mkutani about their thoughts and hopes regarding our ideas for a solution.

Structures Team:

Through our continuing relationship with the community in Mkutani, it has come to our attention that there is a need for additional classroom space in the village’s school for the current and growing student population. With the collaboration of the Boston Professional EWB chapter and the community it is our intent to design and construction one multipurpose classroom adjacent to the existing school infrastructure. This additional structure will be an expansion to the existing school and thus not only provide the supplementary space required to satisfy the needs of the growing demand of space but also provide a safe, resilient and structurally sound building and educational environment.

Distribution Pipeline Team:

The next goal in continuing with our solar powered water pump project is to make water access even easier for the members of Mkutani. While anyone can now pump the water, the borehole is still a 3.5 km walk people’s homes. We are planning to install a distribution system in collaboration with the Boston Professional chapter. On this trip we will do further surveying of the area in order to prepare for implementing this system on a future trip.

 

About Engineers Without Borders

EWB is a non-profit that partners with people from developing countries around the globe, and works with them to find solutions that will improve quality of life in their communities.

As part of the MIT Engineers Without Borders chapter, a student-run organization, we are learning practices that will make us lifelong change-makers. Our team is a diverse group of engineers, scientists, leaders, designers, humanitarians and innovators that's working together to create a better world, one community at a time.


Learn about past projects here: http://ewb.mit.edu/ 

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Organizer and beneficiary

MIT Engineers Without Borders
Organizer
Cambridge, MA
Kaleigh Hunt
Beneficiary

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