Engineers Without Borders Yemen provides humanitarian and disaster relief in emergencies, armed conflict, drought, famine, and other serious disasters create emergencies in which large numbers of people require urgent help. In emergency situations we provide clean water, sanitation and shelter, the very essentials for people survival. We are existed at every aspect of disaster relief, including refugees camping.
We exercise productive partnerships with local communities and as much to learn from local people as we do to them. We transfer skills, including management skills, to people who have not had the opportunity to obtain them to leave a lasting legacy.
We believe the importance of engineers in developing and disaster regions can’t be underestimated. Doctors are sent to fix health problems. Our engineers go to design ways to improve the quality of life and avoid the health problems in the first place.
Our approach is to solve water problems while addressing social, economic and technical factors in an integrated manner. We ensure that solutions to safe water problems are socially accepted and locally organized. Our projects are designed to use minimal capital and to work within village economies, without distorting the social structure by adding to the problems of inefficient use to resources and funds.
While low-tech responses often serve developing and disaster-struck communities best, high-tech engineering solutions we provide certainly also play an important role in our role in disaster response.
We work in ways that can lessen the impact of future disaster while still letting people live the way they want. As an industry we are one of the last to project ourselves as people who care.