WABI covers Engineers Without Borders meeting ahead of Ecuador trip
WABI (Channel 5) attended a meeting of the University of Maine student group Engineers Without Borders. Members of the group gathered at the Foster Center for Student Innovation for their final weekly meeting before their upcoming trip to Ecuador. From Dec. 16 through Jan. 11, four student members and one mentor will embark on a second assessment trip to the community of El Descanso, Ecuador. The trip is intended to lay the groundwork for the development of a sustainable water supply system in the 120-person community. “Taking a plane ride to another country, getting on a bus for six hours and then taking another two-hour bus ride all on dirt roads to get to a community that has so little, yet gives so much — there’s nothing quite like it,” said Nat Midura, president of EWB-UMaine.