Toracari, 2024

This year, we are sending 3 travelers to Bolivia: Adleigh Flanary, Logan Braun, and Lucas Miller. This bridge project connects the main town Toracari to several other communities, including, Wenqaylla, Jachacalla, Alcalaca, Escoma, and Allpayaque. This bridge is one of our best yet! We are granting over 600 individuals (including 20 children) to necessary health care centers and the two schools in the Toracari community. With a span almost 90 meters, we are helping to grant 150 more days of access to neighboring communities.

We are happy to be working with the Duke University chapter, as well as a Free Agent from Texas A&M. This was possible due to our amazing corporate sponsors. Thank you to Whiting-Turner, Clark Nexsen, and Dunbar Structural for helping us complete this project!

Kainacas, Bolivia 2023

In 2023, we were able to send 4 students to Río Kainacas in Bolivia from Virginia Tech: Nicholas DiFranza, Joe Lorrain, Erika Riddervold, and Jimena Macias. The project directly benefited over 250 community members in not only Kainacas, but additional villages nearby. These villages included Robledo and Kurcunchi. The 35-meter footbridge was a much needed addition to grant the communities access to healthcare centers and schools across the river.

Working on-site with the Illinois chapter, with help from Georgia Tech on the design, the project went without a hitch! The construction was set to last for 6 weeks, but the team finished almost 2 weeks ahead of schedule, allowing the students extra time to explore Bolivia.

Godloza 2022

This is a very exciting year for Engineers In Action as an organization and for our specific chapter for two reasons. The first is possibly the most exciting as this is year that chapters have the best chance to start travelling again to our countries! For our chapter it doubles in excitement because we have expanded our country portfolio to now include Eswatini (formerly Swaziland)! We have also experience the highest demand for travel within our club since it's transition in 2018.

Godloza is the community our travelers will be directly impacting, however the communities of Kagwegwe and Kuhaleleni will also experience the benefits from our bridge bringing the estimated total population of impact to 7000 people. This is by far the greatest impact our chapter has had on a community and up there for the highest in Engineers in Action history. It is also estimated that 5000 of those people are children which means their access to education and medicine will be dramatically improved. Though we are still designing the bridge it is proposed to be a 65 meter footbridge that crosses over the Ngwavuma River. To check out our exact project site follow this link!