A past project of our chapter partnered with the community of Kabingo, Uganda, and the US-based non-profit Hope for Kabingo. A team of two EWB-Miami students and two EWB professional mentors completed the first assessment trip in March of 2017 in order to determine the capacity in which our chapter could help their community. Our chapter then returned in January 2018, March 2019, and January 2020 working to implement and assess a water project which includes solar-powered pumps and gravity-fed iron treatment and water distribution. In the Fall of 2020, the Uganda project team also worked remotely with the community on sanitation for COVID-19 relief, including hand washing stations and producing liquid hand soap. The project then concluded with trips in May 2022 and May 2023 when the team conducted final water quality testing and other close out procedures. The videos above feature interviews with community leaders and a clip from a Ugandan news broadcast reporting on the impact of Hope for Kabingo’s overall work, one part of which is their partnership with our chapter and EWB-Greater Cincinnati Professionals.

EWB-USA National Conference Presentation

Our team had the opportunity to present on the unique aspects of our project, as well as the technical applications of the hydraulic modeling software EPAnet.