Brentwood Welcomes Engineers Without Borders on November 14th

On November 14th at 7:30pm, volunteers from the University of Victoria chapter of Engineers Without Borders will visit Brentwood and provide a hands-on workshop for our students. Engineers Without Borders is a volunteer organisation that believes in sustainable human development through access to simple technology. They are primarily a volunteer-sending organisation and each year the University of Victoria Chapter sends 1-2 volunteers overseas to work on projects primarily in Africa. One of our volunteers, Mark Brown, a fourth-year geography and earth sciences student, went overseas to Zambia this summer and came back with some incredible stories of his experiences that we hope he will be able to share with the students. Our presentation, Water for the World, is extremely interactive; we will have the students divide up in to groups to construct a water filter with given supplies. This presentation teaches what it is like for those living in impoverished communities to live without clean water. Along with the presentation, we teach students about the process of water filtration in a country such as our own as compared to a third world country. Then there is a quiz on water, and we discuss the Walkerton crisis, which helps put things into perspective.