Video: Student Work: Ghana School Library Initiative

By Jeremy Blair on July 25, 2011, noon

Princeton Engineering without Borders students speak about their experience helping build a library in Ashaiman, Ghana.

In the summer of 2011, five students from Princeton University's Engineers Without Borders (EWB) chapter spent two months in Ashaiman, Ghana, to finish the construction of a community library. This video chronicles the trip, which was the culmination of a three-year project to provide the area with improved education and digital resources.

Student work: The Ghana school library initiative, part 2 .

Jeremy Blair '13 chronicles the construction of a library in Ghana, which was built with the help of Princeton's chapter of Engineers Without Borders.

Student Work: Potable Water for La Pitajaya .

Princeton University's chapter of Engineers Without Borders is implementing a potable water project in Peru.

Student Work: Clean water for Peru .

Last summer, the Princeton chapter of Engineers Without Borders (EWB-PU) traveled to La Pitajaya, Peru, to construct the first phase of a potable water system.

Student engineers' project expands access to clean water in Kenyan village .

In 2012, Swahili lecturer Mahiri Mwita approached Princeton University's chapter of Engineers Without Borders with the idea of starting a project in the Kuria District of Kenya where he grew up. Three years later, a team of Princeton engineering students has helped design and build an award-winning rainwater catchment system there to provide clean, reliable water, and the group plans to build another system this summer.

Video feature: Engineers Without Borders, Sierra Leone .

A group of four students working with the Princeton chapter of Engineers Without Borders (EWB-Princeton) were in Sierra Leone last summer to talk with local citizens and leaders about opening a new program. EWB-Princeton will be partnering with the village of Dorma to address a few of the basic needs of the community. The students noted that the village has seen little continual effort for a redevelopment of infrastructure in the postwar decade.

Video feature: Potable Water for La Pitajaya .

Students in the Princeton chapter of Engineers Without Borders have scouted their newest project: building a pipeline to bring drinking water to 150 residents in the village of La Pitajaya, Peru. According to the students, the residents have no source of clean water and resultant sickness is common in the isolated community.