About EWB

Poverty is not about weakness. For the 800 million people who go hungry each day and the one billion who lack access to clean water, poverty is an absence of opportunity.

Engineers Without Borders is responding to this urgent need, helping people in developing communities gain access to technologies that will improve their lives. We believe that technology, when appropriately incorporated into each community’s social, cultural, economic and political context, can drive extraordinary change.

We promote human development through access to technology by:

• Partnering with developing communities to help build the capacity of their technical sector
• Raising awareness among Canadians about how they can make decisions that positively impact communities overseas
• Encouraging the Canadian government to become a model global citizen by taking on a leadership role in poverty alleviation

More information about Engineers Without Borders Canada can be found at www.ewb.ca.