Engineers Without Borders New Zealand
Engineers Without Borders New Zealand is an organisation of professional and student engineers who share a vision to confront global challenges of poverty, sustainable development and social inequity by undertaking projects that will directly improve the quality of life in communities within New Zealand and in the South Pacific region.
Kick-off 2010 - Monday 15 March - Brought to you by Hilti
Submitted by IainNZ on Sun, 02/21/2010 - 21:26
EWBNZ is excited to announce that “Kick-Off 2010” will be held on Monday, March 15, 2010 at University of Auckland’s School of Engineering at 20 Symonds Street, sponsored by Hilti. www.hilti.co.nz
Tonga College solar system survives cyclone
Submitted by rjmackay on Tue, 03/02/2010 - 13:41The EWBNZ Auckland Tonga team are pleased to report that the solar groundwater pumping scheme they installed at Tonga College in December 2009 survived cyclone Rene in February.
Tonga College were lucky the cyclone only hit them for an hour otherwise more damage to the school would have been seen. Tonga College Principal Mr Oko, says "All fruits on the fruit trees were blown off so we will shortly face a period of food shortage from this [but] the project is still in place, working well as expected".
The solar scheme was even used for boiling water and charging the teachers cell phones during a 2 day outage of mains electricity to the school following the cyclone!
Internships with Engineers Without Borders
Submitted by rjmackay on Wed, 02/17/2010 - 21:22EWBNZ is currently looking for interns to assist in the office with fundraising, media, and human resource management over a period of 3 months. If you are looking for some valuable work experience in these fields, you can achieve this while contributing towards a great team and organisation.
December Newsletter 2009
Submitted by rjmackay on Tue, 12/22/2009 - 01:23Take a look at what EWBNZ has been up to over 2009 in our December Newsletter and find out how you can get involved in 2010!
