Involvement in Engineers Without Borders

Engineers Without Borders is a nonprofit organization which establishes partnerships with communities worldwide through its professional and student members. Chapters throughout the country take on engineering projects to help communities in need. They plan and implement the projects, and maintain continuing relationships with the people and projects to assure that they are sustainable.

We have offered our assistance to our local chapter of Engineers Without Borders, Inland Empire Professionals, serving Riverside and San Bernardino Counties in California. They are in the process of preparing an application for approval by the national organization which will be in carried out in Aldea San Lorenzo El Tejar, Guatemala. It involves two phases. In the first, a non-functional water tank and pump will be repaired and an assessment will be made of other work to be accomplished. Phase Two will involve designing and installing water systems to meet the needs of the community.

Inland Empire Professionals remains active in local projects as well. These include the volunteering of services for an Inland Waterway Cleanup of Chino Creek on El Prado Road, in Chino, in October. The El Prado Road site is commonly used as a dump site and the residual garbage and trash ends up in Chino Creek. The creek is a tributary of the Santa Ana River which provides drinking water for Orange County residents and habitat for wildlife.

In addition, members volunteer their services for construction projects on weekends in conjunction with Amor Ministries, in Tijuana, Baja California.