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30/09/2008
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Growing Up: The Rise and Rise of EWB-UK
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How is a charity with only three paid members of staff able to support 16 branches in the UK, manage over 34 placements abroad and stay at the forefront of some of the most exciting research projects in the development field? And what's more why does it keep expanding?
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17/09/2008
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FULL-TIME CEO FOR EWB-UK ANNOUNCED |
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Engineers without Borders-UK will have its first ever paid Chief
Executive Officer from December funded by The Vodafone Foundation.
Andrew Lamb was one of the six winners of the 'World of Difference'
programme established by The Vodafone Foundation. EWB-UK looks forward
to him working to develop the identity, organisation systems and
capacity of this vibrant young charity. |
| 04/09/2008 |
'Yak Yak' - Promise of a better future for people of the Pamirs
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Manufacturing engineering graduate Sarah Ong applied her education in
one of the poorest countries of Central Asia. Funded by an EWB-UK Bursary,
she spent the spring in the mountainous terrain of Tajikistan to work
on an income generation project for locals from yak down (fine hair) |
| 04/09/2008
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EWB-UK Volunteer Contributes to HIV Prevention Research
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The International Design Development Summit (IDDS), a unique set-up
drawing on the experiences of development practitioners from different
countries and backgrounds, led to a path-breaking development, which
promises to take research on HIV prevention a step further. |
| 29/08/2008 |
Olympic Silver for EWB-UK Volunteer |
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A former EWB-UK volunteer has won a silver medal for Great Britain at the
Beijing Olympics. Emma Pooley, who did an EWB-UK placement in Honduras in 2003, won a silver medal
in the Cycling Time Trial event, beating third place Karin Thurig from
Switzerland by over 34 seconds. |
| 14/08/2008 |
Bringing Clean Water to Rural Laos Communities |
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A collaboration between EWB-UK and Sunlabob, a manufacturer of
renewable energy technology based in Laos, has proved so successful
that they have asked the charity for more volunteers. |
12/08/2008
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Tri-Disciplinary Course: Places Still Available! |
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From learning about the benefits of biogas to building solar water
heaters, EWB-UK's Tri-Disciplinary Course introduces the participant to
both the theory and the practical application of some of the
technologies and techniques used by NGOs in the field. |
| 11/08/2008 |
News from the field: Work at Indian rural technology institute |
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It may sound wishfully ambitious. But if everything goes well, Calum Thompson, an EWB-UK volunteer,
may well be drawing up a set of parameters and testing engines running
on biogas in practice in a small city on the West coast of India. |
28/07/2008
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EWB-UK at International Development Design Summit |
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Six students from EWB-UK are working this month at the International
Development Design Summit, undertaking an intensive month-long process
of developing new
technological solutions to the real world problems in the developing
world. |
| 15/07/2008 |
2008 Placement Volunteers prepare for action |
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volunteers - both university students and recent graduates - will from
July 2008 embark on a variety of projects to support the work of nearly
20 organisations worldwide, helping to remove the technological
barriers to development which can so often hold people and communities
in poverty. |
Related News Websites
AlertNet
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Run by Reuters, AlertNet is a humanitarian news network that aims to
keep relief professionals and the wider public up-to-date on
humanitarian crises around the globe. AlertNet has a network of 400
contributing humanitarian organisations. |
| OneWorld UK
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"Independent
news for an interdependent world" - with a global network of over 1,600
partner NGOs, OneWorld aims to provide the UK's best online coverage of
human rights and sustainable development. |
UN News Service
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The United Nations' News Service - most news covered by the UNNS is relevant to human development and humanitarian work. The 'news by topic' menu includes sections on Economic Development, Culture and Education, Humanitarian Aid and Refugees, and so on.
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| OCHA News Centre
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The UN's Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs runs a
news centre with press releases, newsletters, official briefings and
speeches, and - most interestingly, I think - regular situation reports
on ongoing humanitarian operations. Great for keeping up-to-date with
current issues in the humanitarian relief field. |
| ReliefWeb |
Run by REUTERS, ReliefWeb is the world’s leading on-line gateway to information
(documents and maps) on humanitarian emergencies and disasters. An
independent vehicle of information, designed specifically to assist the
international humanitarian community in effective delivery of emergency
assistance, it provides timely, reliable and relevant information as
events unfold, while emphasizing the coverage of "forgotten
emergencies" at the same time. |
| IRIN |
Another
OCHA-related (but independent) news website. Based in Nairobi, IRIN's
principal role is to provide news and analysis about sub-Saharan
Africa, the Middle East and parts of Asia for the humanitarian
community. |
Developments
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Developments is a free quarterly magazine from the UK Government’s
Department for International Development designed to increase awareness
of development issues. |
