Creating positive change through high-impact international projects
At the heart of our International Projects is a desire to make a real difference. With around 30 initiatives in our portfolio, we're working hand-in-hand with local grassroots organizations to bring lasting, positive change to low-income communities and our planet. Our aim is to provide the resources and know-how to transform lives, strengthen communities, and meet basic human needs. We believe in inclusivity, sharing knowledge, and finding sustainable solutions that truly work.
Our efforts reach into vital areas like energy, waste management, water, sanitation, food production, and digitalization, especially in underserved regions. Many projects are linked to schools, with the goal of improving education, while others connect to healthcare. We're committed to projects supporting sustainable and resilient communities, that promise long-term development. Our international endeavors are marked by cooperation and knowledge-sharing, and we only operate in safe, conflict-free areas.
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Higher Education for girls in Tanzania
Every day, girls face barriers to education caused by poverty, cultural norms and practices, poor infrastructure, and violence. We are constructing a three-storey school building to enable more young girls to reach high-level education, fulfill their potential and become role models.
Build up Nepal
Build Up Nepal was founded after the 2015 earthquake which destroyed many homes, especially in poorer regions. This project created a manual describing the construction process for earthquake resistant houses. This enabling locals to build houses without having to rely on knowledge and help from others.
Safe health care at Mkula Hospital
Since 2017, EWB-SWE has been collaborating with Mkula Hospital in Northern Tanzania, to address pressing infrastructural and architectural issues in a holistic way in order to provide safe health care. In this last phase, we will construct a new laboratory aiming to increase the quality and quantity of patient treatment.
Improving water access at 131 schools in Tanzania
In Karagwe and Kyerwa, we are constructing water tanks at primary schools to improve the water and sanitation situation hence impacting health and facilitating teaching and learning for approximately 80,000 children once the long-term objectives are fulfilled.
Water Project in Bangladesh
Around 25 million people in Bangladesh are lacking access to clean drinking water. In collaboration with partners in Sweden and Bangladesh, we aim to improve the water situation in Goaldihi Village and thereby improve the standard of living and health for the people in the area.
Shaping digital futures
Whether in school, at university or on the job, the digital transformation is underway, making IT skills more important every day for employment and to compete in the modern economy. Our C4S initiative aims to improve education through a sustainable, cost efficient and energy efficient computer setup.
Sanitation Solution for Karagwe Schools
At schools in the rural Karagwe District of North-Western Tanzania, toilets and sanitation facilities are often of low quality and lacking in privacy. EWB-SWE and Sandvik are cooperating with Mavuno Project to construct sustainable and user-friendly toilet facilities.
Integrated Solar Cooking Diffusion in Kenya
Cooking on a wood fire, animal waste or charcoal fire leads to great problems both for nature and human health. In collaboration with Asulma Centre Self Help Group, we are promoting and implementing integrated solar cookers in low-income areas of Nairobi, Kenya.
Construction of a Family Center in Ghana
Severe poverty often leads to the separation of families. Together with Stiftelsen Make a Difference we build a Family Centre offering impoverished families the opportunity for daycare, homework support, vocational training and emergency accommodation.
COMPLETED PROJECTS
Water Supply for villages in Tanzania
The citizens of Chonyonyo, Rukole and the area around have a very stressed water situation. Women and children walk several hours to reach natural water sources and the water is not of good quality. We secured access to clean water for the villages.
Solar panels for Mavuno's orphanage
In the districts of Karagwe and Kierra, many children are orphaned. We worked together with the local organisation Mavuno in the final phase of constructing an orphanage in Chonyonyo and securing electricity through solar panels.
Kolandoto Healthy Hospital in Tanzania
A collaboration between Kolandoto Hospital, the NGOs Involvaid, EWB-SWE and Architects Without Borders resulted in substantial hospital infrastructure improvements. The primary objective of the project was to reduce morbidity and mortality in the region.
CCY School Tanzania
This collaboration aimed at providing engineering solutions for carefully selected projects linked to one of the newly established schools and orphanages founded by CCY Tanzania.
Wind Power for Tanzania
With the help of local engineers, Wind Power for Tanzania built Hugh Piggott’s wind turbines in remote areas to meet the urgent need for off-grid electricity in the region.
SunPower Zimbabwe
For more than two decades, FACE Zimbabwe has been running sustainable livelihood, gender empowerment, and community engagement projects. We have partnered to install a 3kw solar system in the maternity ward of Rusape General Hospital.
Wulugu Senior High School, Ghana
Together with Wulugu Senior High School in Northern Ghana, we developed a sustainable toilet structure that separates urine, which instead can be used in local agriculture. The project aimed at reducing the amount of open defecation to reduce health problems.
Kitchen Facility with Rocket Stoves
We participated in theconstruction of a new kitchen at the Wulugu Senior High School in Northern Ghana. The new kitchen solution enabled school children to attend school, and staff to work at the school campus, without risking to inhale health hazardous smoke.
Zero Dropouts, Tanzania
In Tanzania, more than one-third of teenage girls drop out of school, often due to the menstrual taboo and the the high-cost of sanitary pads. Together with local actors, we initiated the project “Zero Dropouts” to support young women to stay in school and continue their education.
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