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At the turn of the Millennium the people of the world, through the United Nations, formulated the Millennium Development Goals aimed at halving world poverty by 2015.

We’ve heard the statistics before – over 800 million people do not consistently have access to clean water, almost the same amount of people go to sleep hungry each day. These numbers are reflection of a fundamental problem facing humanity in the 21st century: a lack of opportunity.

As a Canadian non-profit organization, Engineers Without Borders (EWB) is a network of students, professionals, and Canadians from every walk of life who are committed to building a world of opportunity for rural Sub-Saharan Africans. In Canada, EWB works to connect Canadians to the realities of development, encourage the engineering profession to serve society, and encourage the government to move towards effective aid policies. In Africa, EWB partners with on the ground organizations in Burkina Faso, Ghana, Malawi, and Zambia to develop and enact effective, efficient, and innovative solutions to international development challenges such as water and sanitation delivery, infrastructure planning, and agricultural methods. By combining on the ground experience with passion and the pragmatic, yet innovative, engineering problem solving spirit EWB is poised to create long lasting changes in Africa and Canada to build a world of opportunity.

The University of Calgary Chapter is a group of passionate students with a strong commitment to fostering global citizenship within Canada by raising awareness of global issues and challenging Canadians to think critically about how their actions can impact developing nations. As a chapter we have focused on the following programs: