Adu Achi Water Project
Canadian Samaritans for Africa partnered with the Engineers Without Borders at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign and Ebonyi State University, Nigeria in 2006 to build a water system for the village of Adu Achi, a community of approximately 10,000 people in Enugu State in Eastern Nigeria.
An initial site assessment was carried out in August 2006 by a team of six engineering students who travelled to Nigeria to collect data on how to build an appropriate water system, and to assess the needs and desires of the community.
The Enugu Project team has since been recognized nationally and internationally for its design and plans for the implementation of this project. They were awarded the Best Student Presentation at the National Groundwater Research and Education Foundation Groundwater Summit in May 2007 and were finalists in the Mondialogo Engineering Award sponsored by UNESCO and Daimler Chrysler. Two members travelled to India in December 2007 to participate in a weeklong symposium in Mumbai, India and to exhibit the project for the Mondialogo Award.
The project also won an EPA P3 Grant and phase 1 award and will be on exhibit on the National Mall, Washington D.C. in April 2008. A team of four engineering students and three members of Canadian Samaritans for Africa travelled to Nigeria in January 2008 to build the water reservoirs and to further assess the needs of the community. Plans are underway for another team to travel to Nigeria in 2008 to complete the water project.
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