We are waiting to board our flight to Ghana!
This year, the UNF Engineers Without Borders Ghana Project team will complete their fourth engineering project at the Tamale Children's Home. The team of four engineering students spent the last two semesters designing and planning water improvements for the Home. Their project will focus on bringing water to the building where the older children live at the Home. They will connect to the existing municipal water supply line and run several hundred feet of pipe to new water storage tanks, install a pump and an elevated storage tank on an existing reinforced concrete tower. The water inflow will connect to an indoor shower, sink and toilet. The team will connect outflow from the toilet to an existing septic tank and will construct a graywater infiltration pit to safely dispose of the outflow from the shower and sink. This system is the last major water system that the Home administration have requested and will mirror the systems that the 2009 and 2011 UNF student teams constructed at the infant nursery and kitchen buildings at the Home.
The second project that this year's team will focus on is filling in a five foot diameter, thirty-two foot deep open well, that was abandoned fifteen years ago, but poses a serious falling hazard to the children and contamination hazard to the local water table.
We are all excited for the next two weeks of adventure and travel!
The goal of the Ghana Project is to improve the lives of the residents of the Tamale Children's Home through low cost/high impact sustainable engineering solutions. The project is a collaboration between the University of North Florida, Engineers Without Borders-USA UNF, the UNF School of Engineering and the UNF Honors Program.
Praying that you will all arrive safely
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