Princeton chapter wins national EWB award

The United States Engi­neers With­out Bor­ders orga­ni­za­tion has named Princeton’s EWB chap­ter a 2013 Pre­mier Project win­ner for its library project in Ashaiman, Ghana. In the sum­mer of 2011, five stu­dents from Prince­ton Engi­neers With­out Bor­ders trav­eled to Ashaiman, to fin­ish the con­struc­tion of a com­mu­nity library. This trip was the cul­mi­na­tion of a three-year project to pro­vide the area with improved edu­ca­tion and dig­i­tal resources. The fin­ished struc­ture is now fully oper­a­tional and open to the pub­lic. The library fea­tures elec­tric light­ing and fans, 37 net­books and a charg­ing sta­tion, and more than 7,000 labeled and cat­a­logued books. This video by Jeremy Blair chron­i­cles the group’s final visit. The travel team mem­bers were Buse Aktas ’14, Jeremy Blair ’13, Cole Free­man ’14, Eliz­a­beth O’Grady ’13, and Akhil Reddy ’13.

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