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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.

 

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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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