SPECIAL FEATURE
EWB aims to solve global problems from sanitation and water scarcity to adequate housing provision ENGINEERING THE FUTURE
Engineers Without Borders is on a mission to deliver critical development across the global engineering sector. Newly-appointed President Sanjiv Indran shares the organisation’s plans to address the most pressing challenges of our time
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umanity continues to face many significant global challenges, from lack of access to clean drinking
water and adequate sanitation facilities, to safe housing and reliable energy. With the climate crisis posing the greatest threat to life we have ever faced, it has never been more important for the engineering sector to help build a world where everyone – and the planet – can thrive. Engineers Without Borders (EWB)
is a community of engineers that has been working for more than 40 years to address global inequity and injustice
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through engineering solutions. Today, the organisation’s presence reaches across all major global regions, with more than 37 member associations established around the world. Most recently, EWB International
(EWB-I) appointed Sanjiv Indran as its new President, who co-founded EWB Malaysia in the hope of inspiring and empowering the next generation of Malaysian and international engineers to help build a more sustainable future. “We all have a common goal to
use engineering and engineering- orientated products to help disadvantaged communities and
people through our projects,” Sanjiv Indran says. “Over the years, our member organisations have coalesced into this global movement with the shared theme of helping underserved communities and bringing together engineers, professionals, academics and students to work to build a better, more sustainable world.”
CHALLENGING TIMES “The one issue that is always first and foremost is the climate crisis,” says Sanjiv Indran. “There’s been a lot of talk around this, and many organisations have commonly identified that this is
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