Our first Mbokop, Cameroon assessment trip is officially underway…well after a few stops in Istanbul and Yaounde. Our team of eight is currently on their second flight from Istanbul to Yaounde and from there will fly …
When your project literally isn’t even on the map
One of the (many) challenges to starting a new project is visiting a country that often none of the team members have been to before. Many of the small villages EWB tends to work with …
Less than two weeks until our first Assessment trip to Cameroon
With our assessment trip less than two weeks away the team has been busy with last-minute preparations. Here are a few photos from a training session where team members practiced GPS operation, water sampling and …
What is the purpose of an EWB assessment trip?
We’ve been posting a lot here about our upcoming assessment trip, but really what is its purpose? What do we hope to accomplish? Princeton University’s EWB student chapter has put together a great video about …
2013: A big year for the Cameroon project
A belated “Happy New Year” to our readers from the Cameroon team! This is going to be a really busy year for us since we’re gearing up for our first assessment trip coming up very …
How does geography affect development?
Over the past couple months I’ve been taking a free online course on Development Economics through Marginal Revolution University, a massively open online course (MOOC) taught by Tyler Cowen and Alex Tabarrok at George Mason …