April 8th, 2021 Bad Brad
Force For Good (FFG) creates online screening events featuring its original award-winning music videos to raise awareness and funds for important causes. The FFG team produces these online events to include film premieres, conversations with experts on the film’s topic, and a spotlight on a designated nonprofit who receives 100% of all event donations.
The first online event centered on the film, “Organic,” FFG partnered with Snipes Farm and Education Center, a Bucks County, PA organic farm. In addition to learning about organics, attendees were given the opportunity to donate toward fresh produce and a summer camp for children living in an emergency homeless shelter. The event raised over $6,800.
Side gigs for good across Penn For many, 2020 was a difficult year. Despite that, the community found ways to go above and beyond, in their own backyards and across the world. Clockwise, from top left: Junior Fatima Al Rashed on a trip to The Gambia, where she is working to build six private toilets near the entrance to a secondary school; a Penn Medicine student with students from Comegys Elementary School in West Philadelphia (pre-pandemic image); English professor Melissa Sanchez, a leader in the Upper West Side Open Hearts Initiative; grocery bags of food delivered weekly by Sarvelia Peralta-Duran of the Jerome Fisher Program in Management & Technology; and MindCORE’s Heather Calvert with foster dog Ugo (pre-pandemic image).
Engineers Without Borders Continues their Humanitarian Mission
December 16, 2020 by Jeff Martin
Founded in 2007, Drexel’s chapter of Engineers without Borders ‘(EWB) mission is to build a better world through engineering. It aims to empower communities to meet basic human needs and equip leaders to solve the world’s most pressing challenges. The Drexel students are taking on two international water supply projects from the national EWB parent organization – one in Ecuador and another in El Salvador.
Chapter President Jillian Saunders and Vice President Joshua McGuckin took a break in their studies to discuss the student organization and its mission.
What are Engineers without Borders’ primary goals?