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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,...
Inspiring change in the classroom
"School outreach makes a difference because it can inspire change at classroom level, and that is where the greatest impression can be made.” When Erhart was a young student making subject choices that would shape his future career, he found the whole process very...
The guide to Non-gineering for Not-Engineers everywhere
"Before I started volunteering at Engineers Without Borders (EWB) Australia, I could barely explain what my sister a Sustainable Systems Engineering student did. Although we are identical twins (with supposedly identical genetics) I chose the words rather than the...
Not all toilets are created equal
This World Toilet Day we are talking about toilets for the millions of people who live in flood prone, mountainous and remote areas – challenging environments where standard sanitation systems don’t work. Without access to sanitation, millions of people still practice...
Feto Enjiñeira – forging powerful pathways for female engineers
“Generally in the world it is tough to be a female engineer, and in Timor Leste it is especially hard due to social beliefs that engineering is a male profession, and that women should be in the kitchen, or always below a man.” explains Dulce Adolzinda Ximenes Soares;...
How local skills safeguard local water supply
As we celebrate World Water Day, Daniel Miller-Moran, EWB field professional with Plan International, shares some of the ways we are working for Sustainable Development Goal 6 to ensure all Timorese have access to Water, Sanitation and Hygiene services by 2030. EWB...