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Run to End Poverty
What time is it? Summertime!
The Run to End Poverty campaign is happening all across Canada! For more information check out this link.
Interested in registering? Do it! Go to the Run to end Poverty website and register for Team Vancouver! There is a University of Victoria drop down menu.
You can also support our very own EWB member Degnan Hembroff as he runs for what he believes in. Check out his Run to End Poverty campaign page!
Join us in Vancouver on June 27th as we cheer for the runners and Make Poverty History! See you there!
Our Chapter
EWB-UVic was started about five years ago. The last few years have been monumental as the chapter grows and continues to attract students of all disciplines. Since the summer of 2004 our chapter has sent eight students overseas to the Philippines, Zambia, Ghana and Malawi. Our founding chapter president, a mechanical engineering graduate, also completed a two year volunteer placement in Ghana.
At the chapter level, we have been focusing on education. This consists of programs such as high-school outreach, weekly discussion modules for members and participation in the Make Poverty History Campaign.
We are always looking for new members to come and share their passion. Please join us at a meeting or send an email to
for more information.
About EWB
At the turn of the Millennium the people of the world, through the United Nations, formulated the Millennium Development Goals aimed at halving world poverty by 2015.
Engineers Without Borders Canada (EWB) is a leading charitable organisation dedicated to meeting this challenge. Formed in 2000, we have now become one of Canada's most respected development organisations. In the past five years we have sent over 160 young Canadian engineers to work on projects all over the world. Closer to home, our 15,000 members across the country strive to make Canada the most development-friendly and sustainable country in the world.
Our Mission: Engineers Without Borders promotes human development through access to technology.
Human development is about people: their desire and struggle to expand their freedoms and lead lives that they value. In this quest, access to appropriate technology plays a key role — every day, people work to improve their technology, laws, institutions and governance in the complex circumstances that poverty, alienation and voicelessness create.
EWB is comprised of 27 university chapters located all across Canada. Its members are passionate about helping people gain access to the technology they need to improve their lives. We do so by contributing our knowledge, financial resources, volunteer time, skills, and collective voice to help communities around the world.
EWB-UVic was started about five years ago. The last few years have been monumental as the chapter grows and continues to attract students of all disciplines. Since the summer of 2004 our chapter has sent eight students overseas to the Philippines, Zambia, Ghana and Malawi. Our founding chapter president, a mechanical engineering graduate, also completed a two year volunteer placement in Ghana.