What's New at Engineers Without Borders
February 17 2012 at 15:18
African Development Comes to Canada
A new EWB program is launching a 180 degree reversal of our traditional approach. Instead of sending Canadian leaders to African communities, we're bringing African Leaders here.
EWB’s African Leadership Program (ALP) is designed to create better collaboration between Canadians and Africans by ensuring that relationship isn't a one-way street.
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December 14 2011 at 03:00
$250,000 from Google.org…. THANK YOU!
The holidays have come a little early to EWB. We’re incredibly happy to announce that we’ve received a $250,000 grant from Google.org. The press release below conveys just how thankful and excited we are – this is an incredible development that will really unlock the potential of our water and sanitation program (Malawi) and our government and rural infrastructure work (Ghana).
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November 29 2011 at 10:08
Celebrating Smart, Canadian Aid
For more than a year, EWB, it's members and supporters have been engaging with the federal government, making the case for Canada to sign on to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI). On Monday night, those efforts paid off at the High-Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness in Busan, South Korea, where Minister Oda announced that Canada will join 22 other leading donors and sign on to IATI.
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November 11 2011 at 14:59
EWB Gets Transparent After a Year of Advocacy Success
Today, in advance of the 4th High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness in South Korea, Engineers Without Borders Canada (EWB) became the third NGO in the world to publish its aid information using the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI).
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October 24 2011 at 15:09
EWB 2011 Progress Report: Anthony's Experience - Supporting Avian Ventures
This E-Update is part of EWB's 2011 Progress Report, a series of communications that share some of this year's accomplishments from multiple ventures. We've decided to post these reports publicly for all to see.
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October 18 2011 at 10:26
10,000 Canadians Ask For IATI
Some sent postcards, Some sent emails, but in total, over 10,000 Canadians asked their MPs and Minister Bev Oda to sign on to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) today, and to make Canada's aid more effective and more transparent.
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October 15 2011 at 15:06
Aeroplan's 'Beyond Miles' day raises 3,000,000 miles for Engineers Without Borders
Beyond Miles matching day is over, and because of you, we raised 1,509,611 for our work. With Aeroplan matching you mile-for-mile, that's over 3m miles for Engineers Without Borders Canada. That's the equivalent of 30 round-trip flights to Africa for our hardworking volunteers. THANK YOU!
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October 15 2011 at 11:36
Positive Impact... Served frozen, at 100 mph
A few months ago, we got together with our friends at Public Inc. to think up some smart ways to connect Canadians to Africa. During a lull in the conversation, when people were running out of energy, Goerge Roter, EWB’s CEO shared a story about driving by GM place in Vancouver in October 2009, and smiling at the thought of a puck made of fair trade rubber being used to score the winning goal of the 2010 Olympic gold medal hockey game.
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October 13 2011 at 16:19
OCTOBER 17 — Tell Your MP You Want IATI Now
As you may not may not know, Monday is the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty. We're the first to admit that these "days" come and go, and little typically happens, but EWB is working to ensure this day is different.
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September 23 2011 at 15:34
Combining our heart and head, together
George Roter's remarks from his recent talk at TedxToronto. Read the transcript.
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July 8 2011 at 17:07
Thousands Tell The World to Adopt IATI Now
In a 36 hour time period, beginning on Tuesday July 5th, 2,812 people signed EWB's online petition asking governments to make foreign aid more transparent and effective. Those signatures were combined with 2,200 others from around the world, and presented to the co-chairs of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development Working Party on Aid Effectiveness during a major donor conference in Paris, France.
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July 4 2011 at 11:02
Run To End Poverty Vancouver 2011 – A Huge Success!
On Sunday June 26th, the Run To End Poverty (R2EP) Vancouver team took the Scotiabank 5k and Half-Marathon races by storm - more than 120 runners participated in the event, together raising $21,000 to support EWB's Water & Sanitation program in Malawi!
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June 13 2011 at 12:27
EWB Heads to Parliament Hill
On June 14th, more than twenty members of Engineers Without Borders (EWB) will head to Parliament Hill to meet with over 50 Members of Parliament. They will be discussing the state of Canadian aid and providing concrete recommendations for improvement.
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June 7 2011 at 12:10
Announcing the 2011 EWB 'Get Outside Your World' Youth Contest Winners
What kind of world do you want to live in and what action(s) will you take to get there? That's the question for this year's Get Outside Your World Contest held for students from gr. 5 - 12 this year. We received an overwhelming total of 536 entries in total including full class entries for Intermediate and Junior Category.
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May 27 2011 at 14:36
Check out the Run to End Poverty events happening across the country!
This summer, runners are taking strides to end extreme poverty in Africa. May 28-29th, teams from Ottawa, Calgary and Saskatoon are off to the races, kicking off the third season of Run to End Poverty.
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