Our Projects

Cameroon Project

Saker Babtist College, Limbe, Cameroon

Saker Baptist College is an all-girls secondary school with approximately 900 students. Frequent power outages render the school's water system incapacitated, and when operational, does not provide enough or clean water to the students. We are developing plans to construct a storage tank to alleviate this problem, as well as other approaches.
Project Leads:
Natalie Williams (natalie.w@mail.utexas.edu)
Stephen Fleenor (stfleenor@mail.utexas.edu)
More Information:
Cameroon Project Web Site

Mexico Water Project

Jaboncillos Chicos, Coahuila, Mexico

Jaboncillos Chicos is a small community located in the Coahuila Desert, 25 miles south of Big Bend National Park. The community has limited access to clean water and currently has to truck in water from a nearby mountain spring. We are implementing a water distribution system which includes the drilling of a borehole. Through underground piping, a solar-powered submersible pump will distribute potable water from the borehole to faucets at each home as well as to a storage tank. A final implementation trip is planned for August 2008.
Project Leads:
Kathryn Alexander (kalex87@mail.utexas.edu)
Chris Lombardo (lombardo@mail.utexas.edu)

Panama Project

Sieykin, Bocas del Toro, Panama

The EWB-UT Chapter has recently taken on a project in northwestern Panama in Province of Bocas del Toro. The project is located in the Naso community of Sieykin with a population of 400 people. The approximately 3,000 Naso people number are one of the smallest and most impoverished indigenous groups in Panama. This project would support Naso self-sustenance through the improvement of their local infrastructure. The most important need in the community is a clean and reliable water supply as well as basic sanitation. We are working with the community to design and implement an improved water distribution and treatment system including sanitation components.
Project Lead:
Emily Underriner (emilyu@mail.utexas.edu)

Mexico Computer Project

Jaboncillos Chicos, Coahuila, Mexico

The EWB-UT Mexico computer group is working in conjunction with the Hunger Plus committee of the Rotary Club of San Antonio to place sustainable internet-enabled computers in schools of seven ejidos (rural communities) in the northern Mexican state of Coahuila. The prototype system will be installed in the San Miguel ejido, a few miles away from Jaboncillos Chico, where EWB-UT is already working on a sustainable water distribution system.
Project Lead:
Jeffrey Kuhn (jeffreykuhn@gmail.com)

Container Project

Austin, Tx

Project Lead:
Kevin Olsen (kevin_olsen@gmail.com)