Engineers Without Borders (EWB) Canada is a unique organization that has its core the belief that engineers have an important and critical role in solving some of the greatest challenges facing the world today.
Among those is the reality that more than a billion people today live in absolute poverty. While EWB’s mission is to tackle global poverty it is with the understanding that poverty is extremely complex and tackling this issue requires a deeper understanding of the issue and ultimately changing many of the systems that structure our society.
EWB was founded at the University of Waterloo and the UW Chapter of EWB is still one of the largest and most active chapters within the EWB network. Currently our work focuses on 3 main areas: Global Engineering (improving engineering education to include global issues), Fair Trade & Economic Equality and International Development & African Programs. This fall we are holding our annual Gala event in November, Run 2 End Poverty in September.
Our first meeting of the term will be held on Tuesday, September 16th and we look forward to meeting the the class of 2019! Check out our website at uwaterloo.ewb.ca and email us with questions at uwaterloo@ewb.ca.
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