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School of Locally Engineered Solutions: Honduras

Summary

A viability assessment of a school providing community leaders with appropriate technology training specific to their community's needs - initially focused on water, energy and internet access.


How Donors Like You Helped

Thanks to donors like you, a total of $140 was raised for this project.

Received $140 from 7 donations from people like:

(Anon.)

More Information About this Project

Project Needs and Beneficiaries

In rural Honduras, near Nueva Esperanza, many communities lack access to affordable clean water, a reliable source of electricity, the internet and computers. The lack of technologies required to solve these problems contributes to much greater issues involving waterborne illness and disease, hunger, and barriers to economic development. This school will provide community leaders with the knowledge and skills they require to solve these technological problems themselves.

Activities

The assessment will gather local community leaders for discussion on technological problems and need for training. The school will provide hands-on seminars on how to design water, energy, and internet soltutions specific to each community's need.

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: $140

Funding Information

This project is now in implementation and no longer available for funding. Received funds will be used to accomplish concrete objectives as indicated in the project's "Activities" section. Updates will be posted under the "Progress Report" tab as they become available.

Donors' contributions and pledges to this project totaled $140.  The original project funding goal was $14,700.

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).

Resources

Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

The school will be a self-sustaining micro-business creating teaching jobs for past students while continuing to enable communities to develop their own technological solutions for their most pressing health and economic problems.

Project Message

I have seen the ingenuity, intellect and drive of problem solvers in this area of rural Honduras. The problems they face are best identified and solved by those who know them best: local peoples.
- Eric Reynolds, Project organizer and fellow student

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Eric Reynolds,
President
3346 Brendan Dr.
Columbus, Ohio 43221
United States
614.260.4263
Email:

Project Sponsor

Center for Global Engagement, Northwestern Univ

Organization

Engineers for Community Service (ECOS)
3346 Brendan Dr.
Columbus, Ohio 43221
United States
614.260.4263
http://ecos.osu.edu

Learn more about Engineers for Community Service (ECOS) and the project team.



Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in Honduras and can also be found under Technology.

For more information about Honduras, read the Human Development Report on Honduras or the Wikipedia entry for Honduras.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on April 23, 2008.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on April 23, 2008.

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