Cleaner water for the community
In the summer of 2006, Public Service Fellows Kendra Johnson ’09 and Froylan Sifuentes ’09 traveled to Ecuador to work with a small community of indigenous people in the Amazon region of Ecuador around sustainable clean water. Their work included engineering modifications to the water system, teaching the community how to run the administrative and [...]
SAP Builds in Perquin, El Salvador
SAP Builds, a student-run group comprised of undergraduate and graduate students from Architecture and Urban Planning, participated in a two-week design/build workshop in Perquin, El Salvador in January 2009. Students and Professor John Ochsendorf helped to develop and build an iconic entry plaza for the Amún Shéa elementary school and community center. The student body [...]
Conducting a water test
Summer 2010 Public Service Fellows Saba Mohsin (’11 Course 2) and Lily Xu (’12 Course 12) traveled to Ecuador to continue a rainwater filtration tank project that MIT alum Kendra Johnson started in 2006. In this photo, they are conducting water tests to determine level of e.coli and coliform contamination in Santa Ana. The goal [...]
At the corn sheller workshop
Public Service Fellow Brooke Jarrett photographs the corn-shelling workshop at the MIT Alumni Service Trip in Ecuador. The first MIT Alumni Service Trip to the Napo Province in the Amazon Rainforest of Ecuador took place this past summer. Public Service Fellows and MIT Alumni worked with the Kallari Association, a cooperative of indigenous cocoa producers, [...]
