engineers without borders
Once again Kristy is on the bumpy road, this time to a dance event attended by westerners and local officials. Sharing inside jokes with her tribe's chief and a small motorcyle with a large woman, Kristy avoids parasites, dons local garb and re-affirms her commitment to EWB's approach.
Continuing her series about her volunteering experiences in Ghana, Kristy details her adventure in passport acquisition, including a bumpy, parched 100+km trip on the back of the motorcycle.
“We don’t look so far as to a call to arms, but we do look for simple solutions that can be done here, like buying fair trade coffee or writing a letter to an MP”
In the west we often assume that buildings schools in poorer nations is the catalyst to learning. Kristy's time in Northern Ghana has taught her otherwise, and she talks about the many economic and cultural obstacles standing in the way of broader education.
Kristy Minor is an environmental engineer graduate working in Ghana as part of an Engineers Without Borders initiative. In the first of many blog entries she will share on Red Canary, Kristy talks about the geographic challenges faced by the local population.
Given its accomplishments, you’d think Engineers Without Borders would have been born on a laptop, or at worst a binder. Instead, it came into being on a napkin—as two University of Waterloo graduates scrawled their dreams of bringing engineers together to fight poverty. The humble and stunning success story of EWB Canada, and what software professionals can do.