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Belize Open Source -‐ Sustainable Development and Engineers Without Borders-‐USA (EWB-‐USA) in northern Belize
Patrick Coyle, EWB-‐SFP; Belize Open Source -‐ Sustainable Development Livermore Rotary -‐ August 31, 2011
Agenda • Overview:
• Belize Open Source -‐ Sustainable Development • Engineers Without Borders-‐USA (EWB-‐USA)
• Engineers Without Borders — San Francisco Professional Chapter (EWB-‐SFP) • Four EWB chapter projects in northern Belize
• Belize photos • Belize Open Source 40-‐acre site looking toward August Pine Ridge village
What is Belize Open Source -‐ Sustainable Development?
• Belize Open Source -‐ Sustainable Development, as a 501(c)(3) non-‐profit, • promotes environmentally and socially sustainable
development • invites collaboraSon on an open source approach to
develop and parScipate in a land-‐based learning and community outreach center on a working farm on 40 acres in northwestern Belize
• partners with EWB-‐USA to collaborate with EWB chapters on projects
AcSviSes: Belize Open Source -‐ Sustainable Development
• Donated prior year HOME donaSons of $500 to the three EWB chapters – Google matched donaSons with $500 to EWB-‐USA
• From last year’s HOME pledges, donated • $500 to emergency construcSon of a new sepSc tank
for Muffles College in Orange Walk, Belize • $500 to the three chapters – Google, other EWB-‐USA
partners matched the donaSons • $500 to August Pine Ridge school for a public address
system
AcSviSes: Belize Open Source -‐ Sustainable Development (cont.)
• In November, updated at LLNL about BOSSD and three EWB chapters working in northern Belize and received pledges of nearly $2.8k -‐ will allocate in 2011 and 2012 • Donated $500 to August Pine Ridge school for
teacher's texts and filing cabinet for new classrooms • Will donate to the EWB chapters, get matching $
• Raised ~$2.8k for the first visitors’ accommodaSons at our 40-‐acre place to house the CSU EWB teams during their visits to construct new classroom building in August Pine Ridge
• With the CSU EWB, seeking a US Rotary club to partner with Belize Orange Walk Rotary on the August Pine Ridge project
Agenda • Updates and status: Belize Open Source -‐ Sustainable Development
• Engineers Without Borders-‐USA (EWB-‐USA)
• Engineers Without Borders — San Francisco Professional Chapter (EWB-‐SFP)
• Updates and status: Three EWB chapter projects in northern Belize
• Belize photos • Road past Belize Open Source 40-‐acre site toward August Pine Ridge village
EWB-‐USA vision and mission Our Vision is a world in which all communiSes have the capacity to meet their basic human needs
Supports community-‐driven development programs worldwide through the design and implementaSon of sustainable engineering projects, while fostering responsible leadership
EWB-‐USA Growth
2000 8 Members 1 Chapter 1 Project
2011 12,000 Members 250+ Chapters 350+ Projects
• Established in 2004 • 150+ acSve volunteers • 6 infrastructure projects • 5 Appropriate Technology Design Team (A.T.D.T) projects • ExecuSve Commihee and support commihees provide chapter management, fundraising, and publicity
EWB-‐SFP NaSon’s 1st Professional Chapter
EWB-‐SFP Projects and LocaSons Kenya Water Supply
El Salvador Water & SanitaKon, plasKc recycling
Fiji Water System
Ghana & West Africa
Cashew Waste UKlizaKon
Guatemala Wind Turbine
HaiK Community Health Clinic and Solar Power
Honduras Bridge ConstrucKon & Water DistribuKon
Nicaragua ComposKng Toilet
Philippines Rock Crusher
Tanzania Water DistribuKon & Health Clinic
EWB-‐SFP Project Process and Commitment
• All projects have a non-‐governmental organizaSon (NGO) partner acSng as a liaison to the community
• Three project phases: 1. Assessment 2. Design and ImplementaSon 3. Monitoring and EvaluaSon
• Long-‐term infrastructure projects have a minimum 5-‐year commitment to the community
• Appropriate technology projects vary in length depending on the requirements of the NGO and community
What’s the connecSon? • Coyle is founder and a Director of Belize Open Source -‐
Sustainable Development, a 501(c)(3) non-‐profit • Member of the San Francisco Professional Chapter (EWB-‐
SFP) • Serves on EWB-‐USA West Coast Technical Advisory Team
and leads monthly team review of project applicaSons • Authored EWB applicaSon for August Pine Ridge
Community Improvement Program – the classroom building is nearing compleSon by EWB-‐Cleveland State
• Presented at EWB Regional Workshop and EWB InternaSonal on “Simple, Inexpensive Aerial Photography Mapping with Balloons or Kites” and planning workshops with students in Belize on next visit
Belize Open Source -‐ Sustainable Development and EWB chapters
We support three EWB chapters working in northern Belize • Cleveland State University, August Pine Ridge • Iowa State University, Trinidad: fruit dryers, water
filters, science lab • Lamar University, Chunox: restroom facility • Texas A&M, San Mateo on Ambergris Caye: newly
approved, water supply -‐ Coyle reviewed their applicaSon and is in touch with them to collaborate and support them
The focus of this talk is the EWB Cleveland State University August Pine Ridge classroom building project which is nearly complete
Where is Belize?
Belize closer up • Belize is small: About 175 miles,
north-‐south, by 80 miles wide • It has diverse land regions: cayes,
beaches, tropical rain forests, caves with rivers running into them, mountain pine ridge, and savannahs (where we are)
• Belize is small enough and transportaSon is good enough that a stop at Belize Open Source can be included as part of your iSnerary, along with whatever else you choose to do in Belize
• If you visit Belize and volunteer with BOSSD, a reasonable porSon of your trip expenses can be tax deducSble
How to get involved • Contact me:
• [email protected] • Belize Open Source: hhp://belizeopensource.org
• SFP-‐EWB: hhp://ewb-‐sfp.org/ • EWB-‐USA: hhp://www.ewb-‐usa.org/
• Individual chapters and projects are accessible through the EWB-‐USA website
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…building partnerships…
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…making friends…
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MeeKng Rotary in Orange Walk Belize
Ferry
Cafeteria
Pit Latrine Bathrooms
August Pine Ridge, Belize School Building Update
Cleveland State EWB project • The new school building will provide addiSonal space for
the current overcrowded school that serves approximately 450 students and will serve as a hurricane shelter for the general community • A project-‐specific assessment trip was completed in
May 2010 and the floor plan for the school was finalized and approved by the community
• Data on building material quality and availability was gathered along with material prices
• Detailed site soil samples were collected and shipped to CSU’s campus for laboratory tests. Soil characterisScs were incorporated into the school building’s foundaSon design
• Soil characterisScs for a leach field for the school building’s sepSc system were evaluated
Cleveland State EWB (cont.) • The skill level of local labor for construcSon was assessed • A Belizean Civil Engineering firm agreed to help the
chapter with construcSon in Belize, paperwork required by the Central Building Authority (CBA) to secure construcSon approval and building codes used in-‐country
A Preliminary Design Report (PDR) with all necessary design calculaSons and construcSon documents was submihed to EWB-‐USA for review and implementaSon was approved
PDR submihed for approval
Floor plan – classroom building
Cleveland State EWB funding • The preliminary esSmate for construcSon, furnishing and
ourisng the school was ~$150k USD • The community agreed to raise $100k in cash and/or
in-‐kind contribuSons (including labor) • The CSU Chapter agreed to raise up to $50k (Coyle/
BOSSD helped in modest amounts) • The community applied for funds to the Belize
Natural Energy Trust (a fund organized by an oil company) for $50k and to the Social Improvement Fund (an internaSonal development fund in the Caribbean)
• (as of early August, the cost to date was ~$134k, with $61k from Belize and $73k from CSU EWB)
• ConstrucSon began in April, 2011 and is nearly complete
Groundbreaking
• Let’s watch the videos
Blanca Torres school principal, wrote, “The aerial photo mapping seems very interesting. I shared with my children and sisters the images of our village I found in the link and they just loved them. As I mentioned, I welcome these opportunities where I can involve my students in new learning experiences. I am very interested in exposing them through your mapping project. We feel pride in having our community appear in internet pages and more if we are involved in getting those images.
