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Special toilets have special needs
What kind of toilet do you need when you don’t live on land? We ask that question every day, because we work with communities living on lakes, flood plains and high in remote mountains. Living in the places where standard sanitation systems don’t work. If we are to...
Inside advantage
Aleixo Santos is a naturally cheerful person keen to take the time to talk about Plan International’s work with EWB Australia’s Field Professionals, despite his hectic schedule managing the WASH program in Timor-Leste; a young nation working hard to overcome poor...
Community centered pro bono conceives a place of healing
For landscape project Sister Kate's Home Kids Aboriginal Corporation’s “Bush Block“ in Perth, a team of architects and designers working pro bono through EWB Connect used a community centered approach to conceptualise an award winning plan that embodies connection to...
The sisterhood supporting women engineers
In Timor-Leste essential services and infrastructure are still developing and a relatively low-skilled engineering sector compounds these challenges. Women in particular face specific barriers accessing education and employment. So EWB Australia’s program Feto...
From Aid to Enterprise with Atec*
Engineers Without Borders Australia’s ATEC Biodigester project is an innovative social enterprise providing clean energy and health benefits to rural Cambodians. Like 85% of rural Cambodians, Long Sokhon made a modest living off the land. She grew rice...
Empowering women in engineering in Timor-Leste
Working hand in hand to overcome gender barriers, EWB Australia and Feto Enjiñeira are empowering women in Timor. A civil engineer in Timor-Leste, Dulce Adolzinda Ximenes Soares, is passionate about the importance of sanitation. Dulce wants people in remote and rural...
Designing for Disabilities
Engineers Without Borders Australia (EWB) uses human-centred design to promote equitable access for people with disabilities in Australia and the Indo-Pacific. One in five people in Australia, almost four million people, have a disability and the numbers are...
It’s sanitation but not as we know it
Engineers Without Borders Australia has pioneered access to sanitation for communities living in challenging environments, and is fostering cross-sector collaboration to help rural Cambodians access appropriate, affordable sanitation solutions. Living in Australia,...
Emergency response to El Nino in Timor
Rural Timor-Leste relies heavily on the rainy season for the replenishment of their aquifers and water sources. Additionally, agriculture and livestock rearing depend on the rainy season precipitation. The 2015-16 El Nino event crippled parts of Timor-Leste with...
The human centered approach to sanitation
Engineers Without Borders Australia uses human centred design to empower people in Cambodia to be the change they want to see in their communities Just two months before this picture was taken, Mr Chin had never heard the word toilet before. He and his family,...