University of California Irvine Engineering TeleBrigade January 2021 Honduras

Start Date: Jan 11, 2021 12:00 AM
End Date: Feb 13, 2021 12:00 AM

Global Brigades offers Engineering TeleBrigades, a virtual international volunteer program for people who are passionate about access to clean water. This opportunity is an international collaboration to improve access to clean potable water in rural Honduran communities. Each TeleBrigade is a live case study of engineering challenges that prevent a community’s access to potable water. Our bilingual on-the-ground teams guide volunteers to survey land, assess water sources, and ultimately design a full scale community-wide water system using the Epanet software. The program does not stop at design. Participants go further to actually budget the water system so our local teams can support the community to secure local governments or grant funding for construction. A portion of the cost of each volunteer’s donation goal goes toward matching funds to help achieve this.