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Water Management Training A Success

By Anonymous on February 26, 2012

The Water Management Training session for Kikoo and Roh recently took place at the Kikoo Community Center.  The training was facilitated by a local NGO called OK Clean Water and was funded jointly by EWB-Yale, the village of Kikoo, and OK Clean Water.  Sister Cathy Molloy, who helps run OK Clean Water, told us that the training session was a tremendous success with 40 people in attendance, 30 from Kikoo, 5 from Roh, and 5 from a nearby village Romajaay.  “Folks were so pleased with it that the chairman planned to call a general meeting for the following Saturday to motivate t

Update from Kikoo and EWB-USA

By Anonymous on December 21, 2011

Eugene L., our project liaison in Kumbo, writes that construction of permanent walls and roofs for both new school  latrines is well underway.  The Catholic School toilet has been enclosed partly with corrugated aluminium sheets and walls of cement blocks. For the Government primary school, currently it has been enclosed with mud brick wall but the roof is still to be emplaced.

Two Chapter Members Attend EWB-USA Northeast Regional Conference!

By Anonymous on December 4, 2011

During Thanksgiving break, Daniel Kim ’15 and Jonathan Liang ’13 visited Columbia University to represent our chapter at the EWB-USA Northeast Regional Conference. Delicious food kicked off a series of informative presentations and collaborative discussions concerning all things EWB. Topics ranged from intercultural communication and successful project monitoring to microbial contamination and health-related data. Speakers ranged from EWB-USA Executive Director Cathy Leslie to our very own Dave Sacco

Water Management Training for Kikoo Coming Soon

By Anonymous on December 1, 2011

OK Clean Water, a Canadian NGO operating in Kumbo, Cameroon, has confirmed that it will provide Water Management Training to the newly-elected Kikoo Water Management Committee.  The Water Management Committee, elected in early June of this year, is poised to effectively maintain the now-completed water system with some training which will include how to collect dues for current and future repairs, how to distribute responsibility amongst community members, and more.

Standpipes 11 and 12 connected!

By Anonymous on October 6, 2011

Eugene L, our project liason in Kumbo just confirmed with Wilfred (Secretary of the newly-elected Water Management Committee that laying pipe to the final two standpipes in the water system will be complete by November 17th.  The standpipes (tapstands) have already been constructed and the trenches for the pipe have already been dug; connecting the water supply will make clean water available to more residents on the south-east side of Kikoo, as well as students and teachers at the southern government elementary school.

Update from Kikoo – Water Committee elections and latrine progress

By Anonymous on September 22, 2011

Eugene L., our project liaison in Kumbo, writes that with the impending completion of the water system, Kikoo has elected a new Water Committee to oversee system management (as opposed to construction).

Welcome to the new EWB-Yale blog!

By Anonymous on September 15, 2011

Since 2007, students and professional mentors from EWB-Yale have worked with the community of Kikoo and local engineers in the design and construction of six model Ventilated Improved Pit latrines and a gravity-fed water system with 14 tapstands serving over 1000 people. After five years of paper-based newsletters, we’re moving online to bring our supporters more regular updates in a more environmentally-friendly way. 

EWB-Yale Update - Spring 2011

By Anonymous on April 15, 2011

    Since board elections back in January, EWB-Yale has been having a really eventful year! Firstly, we decided that as an awesome campus organization, we needed equally awesome t-shirts. Some of our members put together a great looking design, so now we can all go around campus looking official and proudly showing off our EWB membership.