Lauren Brauckmann

State College, PA

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Volunteering, traveling abroad, and speaking Spanish!

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Penn State Engineering to Honduras March 2015



Lauren's Message

Hi everybody! I'm traveling to a village in Honduras over spring break to help the people of the community get clean water. Part of our group will engineer and implement plans for getting the area clean water and part of us will teach the locals about how to identify clean water. Since I know Spanish, I'll be able to talk to the natives and personally teach them about how important clean water is. While in Honduras, I'll stay with local families, eat fresh food grown on cite, and hopefully travel through the country, too. I'm so excited to go and would love it if you supported me in this trip by donating! Gracias :)

Volunteer Activity Description

Engineering Brigades volunteers travel to Honduras and Ghana to work with local engineers, technicians and community members to assess water problems and select feasible solutions. During the brigade, volunteers have the opportunity to assess potential water sources, map and survey community land, plan and design water projects, and provide technical follow-up on completed systems. Evenings consist of on-brigade education, where brigaders learn about community and project development, water sources, water system design and materials, data analysis, and project proposals. Volunteers will directly apply these engineering concepts during the brigade, and have the opportunity to present summaries of their findings to the community. Construction of the water projects is a result of the collaboration between the Engineering and Water Brigades teams, Water Brigades volunteers, and the community members. Together, Engineering and Water Brigades establish sustainable water systems, provide community education on water-related health issues, and empower community leadership to maintain the system. Between brigades, Global Brigades in-country staff maintains relationships with community leadership committees and provides follow-up with water systems.

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