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Welcome to
Engineers Without Borders - India
(Affiliated to Engineers Without Borders - International)
MISSION
EWB-India has been established as a non-profit
Society, under the Society's Act, to involve engineers, and other
professionals with special or general skills, in a movement of
constructive change. It is inspired by an urgent concern for
accelerating sustainable rural development, assisting in capacity
building in backward rural and urban communities of India,
protecting the country's natural resource base and working across
national boundaries for social and economic justice and responsible use
of technology.
MEMBERSHIP
Membership of EWB-India is open to students in
professional courses and working professionals within India
and abroad. Institutional Membership is available for businesses and
non-profit organizations. Member Application Forms have been posted on
the website, along with Bye-Laws and Rules & Regulations of the
Society.
Accepted members will have the opportunity and
privilege to be associated with and participate in an extraordinary
worldwide movement of professional service, which the Engineers Without
Borders movement represents.
Students and Professionals are invited to apply
for Student / Professional Membership using the appropriate form. They
may then start affiliated Student Chapters and Professional Chapters of
EWB-India as per guidelines posted on the website.
EWB-INDIA LAUNCHES A MAJOR PROJECT
PRODUCTION OF FUEL BRIQUETTES FROM AGRICULTURAL, DOMESTIC AND
INDUSTRIAL WASTE
As an important step in
fulfilling its mission of providing sustainable and affordable
solutions to rural communities and protecting the country’s natural
resource base, EWB-India is launching a major initiative aimed at
producing fuel for cooking and other applications using different types
of waste in a very simple process.
To introduce this
technology, EWB-India, in partnership with Energy Conservation Mission
of Institution of Engineers of India - Andhra Pradesh State Chapter and
Passion for Global Peace, organized a workshop at Hyderabad from November 2 to 5, 2008. The
workshop, conducted by Mr. Sanu Kaji Shrestha, Chairman of Foundation
for Sustainable Technologies, Nepal, was attended by over
30 representatives of women’s self help groups and non-government
organizations.
A first of its kind in
India, this workshop proved to be a success and EWB-India hopes to take
this workshop to larger audiences all over the country in an attempt to
solve the multiple problems of lack of affordable cooking fuel for poor
families, environmental, economical and public health burden caused by
solid waste, greenhouse gas emissions due to open burning of
agricultural and other waste, and so on. This simple technology also
provides livelihood support for people who wish to set up a business
making and selling the briquettes.
  
We invite the interest, participation and support of
volunteers, foundations, social organizations, corporate houses,
industrial centres and confederations and others to transfer this “small is beautiful and useful”
technology to rural areas and low-income urban groups on a large scale.
We are convinced that it has the potential to bring about a major
change in the present unsustainable pattern of development, while bringing
self-sustaining, self-empowering solutions to peoples’ doorsteps to
meet daily needs and provide livelihood support.
For
further information please refer to Projects
WATER AND SANITATION UPGRADATION
WORK AT RASOOLPURA SLUM IN HYDERABAD
We plan to install a model eco-sanitation
(“ecosan”) community toilet at Rasoolpura slum to benefit a large
number of residents facing acute water shortage and lack of sanitation.
The Eco-san design and operation is based on saving water and using
solid and liquid waste to make fertilizer and produce biogas. This is
partly a follow-up of the Mondialogo Engineering Award (Honourable
Mention and 5000 euros cash award) given to the joint entry of Muffakham
Jah College of Engineering (MJCET) EWB Chapter and Karlsruhe University
(Germany) EWB teams in the 2007-2008 Mondialogo Engineering Competition
www.mondialogo.org .
EWB-INDIA'S GREEN AWARD COMPETITION SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETED
A National Competition for promotion
of Sustainable Technology Innovation
This competition, meant to inspire
engineering students in India
to propose innovative ideas for technologies which can be of direct
benefit to underprivileged rural / urban communities, attracted many
submissions, out of which nine finalist teams were selected. Live presentations by eight teams
took place in Hyderabad
on 15th
March, 2008. Go to EWB-India Competition page
for full details.
E-NEWSLETTER 1
To View the contents of E-Newsletter-1
please click on the following link EWB-INDIA NEWSLETTER 1
E-NEWSLETTER 2
To View the contents of E-Newsletter-2
please click on the following link EWB-INDIA NEWSLETTER 2
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