EWB 2026 June· Appeal
Give children in Vanuatu the safe toilets and basic hygiene they urgently need
More than 70,000 children in Vanuatu lack access to safe toilets and basic sanitation.
Help us raise $100,000 by 30 June. Please donate today.
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Stories that stand tall.
Meet the people who said yes. Who showed up. Who built something that lasts.
This is the first of its kind in my community. I am so proud.
David Kalsal
Meet David.
He grew up by a lagoon. He swam there. He fished there with his family. Then the storms came.
- Safe toilets
- Clean water
- Vanuatu
- Big storms
- Villages first
Just do it. Grab the opportunity.
Sadia Abdullah
Meet Sadia.
Sadia left Sydney. Spent a year in Vanuatu. She helped the local water team. Sadia came home changed.
- Vanuatu
- Volunteering
- Clean water
- Sydney
- A year away
Vanuatu is setting out to become the first nation to ban disposable nappies.
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Meet Jack and Mary.
They run a small workshop in Pango Village. They sew nappies that can be washed and used again. Their work is changing the whole country.
- Vanuatu
- Nappies
- Pango Village
- Less rubbish
- A workshop
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Announcing our 2025 EWB Challenge community partner – WaterAid Australia
Since 2009, Engineers Without Borders Australia (EWB Australia) has worked alongside communities in Timor-Leste to develop sustainable solutions to the unique social, economic, and environmental challenges they face. Through long-term partnerships and human-centred...
That’s a wrap for the 2024 EWB Challenge Showcase!
This year’s EWB Challenge Showcase was delivered in collaboration with the 2024 World Engineering Education Forum hosted by the University of Technology Sydney. Finalist teams from 14 universities across Australia and New Zealand joined us at the Sydney Masonic Centre...
This graduate program puts women engineers in the field and brings ‘feto’ to the front
Featured image: ‘Feto to the Front’ graduates with the representatives of the US Embassy in Timor-Leste and EWB staff and volunteers in the Timor-Leste office in Dili. In Timor-Leste, water is a woman’s problem. In rural and regional areas, water generally isn’t...
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