ENGINEERS
WITHOUT BORDERS
“Vast areas of
Sri Lanka were
devastated, and
students from
Karlsruhe Institute
of Technology in
Germany felt they
needed to act to
support people who
lost their homes, loved
ones, livelihoods,
hopes, and dreams."
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Maximum Yield
in Sri Lanka
Anxious to help communities devastated by the 2004 Indian
Ocean tsunami, students from Germany’s Karlsruhe Institute
of Technology formed Engineers Without Borders to put
their building skills to good use. Fourteen years later, the
organization now has 340 members and 12 projects across
the globe, the most recent being a complex aquaculture
system in the Sri Lankan village of Padiyatalawa.