Come out and help us support the South Africa Project Team of EWB-USA as they seek to raise $40,000 to implement a clean-water project in the Bergnek Community, South Africa. The Team has designed a solution to provide the entire community with access to clean water and is raising funds for their October trip to implement this project. Your support …
Category: South Africa
South Africa Implementation Trip
Our South Africa team has plans to travel on their implementation trip later this fall and is seeking your support! The team will be expanding the existing water supply system of the Bergnek Community, a village of 1500+ people who do not currently have enough water to meet their needs. Specifically, the team install a new water well pump, upgrade …
South Africa Project Update
Greetings, The EWB-Bergnek Project Team and the Bergnek community are extremely grateful for your interest and support of the Bergnek Water Supply and Distribution project. My hope for this letter is to be able to give you a glimpse of our trip, the people of Bergnek, the hopes they have for their community, and our plans going forward. Our recent …
South Africa Travel Blog Part II by Joe Schwiterman
See here for Part 1 of Joe’s travel blog After our initial field work, we began developing initial solutions based on our observations of how the community pumps, stores and distributes water, keeping in mind that ‘This is Africa’ and theft is a real problem. The efficiency of the process could be improved by sizing the pumps and running them appropriately …
South Africa Happy Hour Fundraiser
Come out and support our South Africa Project Team as they seek to raise $50,000 to implement their clean water project in the Bergnek Community. The team just returned from a data-gathering trip to Bergnek and is currently developing the solution they plan to implement in August of this year. The event will be February 26th from 7-10PM at 3rd …
South Africa Travel Blog Part 1 by Joe Schwieterman
EWB Assessment Trip to Bergnek Our assessment team for the Bergnek Water Expansion Project was an interesting group of five persons with varying ages and experience. This helped us ask all the necessary questions and leave with a lot of answers to proceed with design. The length of trip was just short of 2 weeks, which was ideal to accomplishing …
Project Blogs
Now that our new website has been up and running for a few months, we’re excited to announce that we’ll be expanding how we use it a little bit. This first expansion will see us rolling out blogs for all of our different projects. We’ve got several active projects right now and four of those have active plans to travel …