The Daniel A. Okun Chapter of Engineers Without Borders and the Student Global Health Committee at UNC’s Gillings School of Global Public Health, In partnership with the national Dow Live Earth Run for Water and Friends of Live Earth, Invites you to think global while running local by participating in the Second Annual EWB/SGHC Run for Water 6k!
Event Info:
Sunday, April 18th at 9:00am (registration opens at 8:00am),
Polk Place at Hanes Hall, UNC Chapel Hill.
Visit the Run for 6k webpage for more information!
EWB First Annual Benefit Dinner a huge success!
The First Annual Daniel A Okun EWB Benefit Dinner and Auction was held on February 6th, 2010 at the Morehead Planetarium and Science Center. The event was a great success, raising over $7000 for EWB-UNC's six local and international projects. Nearly 200 guests attended the event, including students and professors, members of the Rogers-Eubanks community, representatives from USAID and the World Bank, local engineering firms, and members of other North Carolina student and professional EWB chapters. We hope everyone is looking forward to the second annual dinner next year!
EWB Partners with Local Communities Our chapter is working with the UNC Department of Epidemiology to support the Rogers-Eubanks Neighborhood Association (RENA) in Chapel Hill. EWB-UNC partnered with RENA in spring and summer of 2009 to test drinking and surface water and survey well and septic systems in the community and will be partnering with Orange County health department in the coming months to conduct a further study. RENA's President, Minister Robert Campbell, was recently invited to brief EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius on November 20th, 2009 in the West Wing of the White House. Read more in the Daily Tar Heel and Herald Sun. This partnership was previously featured in Carolina Public Health Magazine. You can read about EWB-UNC's commitment to service, both locally and abroad, in the Spring 2009 Issue.
What is EWB-UNC? 
Engineers without Borders (EWB) UNC-CH Chapter is a student organization at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, founded for the purpose of facilitating UNC student involvement in international engineering and health projects organized or approved by EWB-USA. The goal of EWB is to partner with developing communities worlwide to improve their quality of life. This partnership involves the implementation of sustainable engineering projects, which may address water and sanitation, energy, and waste concerns. Our chapter is involved with construction and design work, consulting, teaching, surveying, or other tasks as determined by project needs. In order to fulfill our goals and objectives, we will raise funds to support projects, facilitate collaboration between student groups and local engineers and other universities on development projects, and host speakers and seminars relevant to the role of the engineer in development work abroad.
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