Our Mission

The mission of Engineers Without Borders  - Nigeria (ewb-nigeria) is to partner with disadvantaged communities and stakeholders to improve their welfare, livelihoods, quality of life, and dignity through implementation of environmentally, equitable and economically sustainable engineering projects, while developing internationally responsible engineering students and professionals.

Our Values

We believe in change that can contribute positively to the communities in which we work; change through common action in intransigent systems; change that started now will provide new solutions over time; and change that can interrupt the cycle of poverty that contributes to terrorism, rejection of democracy and acceptance of radical political solutions. 

We believe in the people in host communities who define the development projects and contribute to insuring ownership, appropriateness, and long-term effectiveness.  People who are entitled to a level of technology that supplies their basic human needs – people who can solve their own problems.  If they are aware of the technical options, build new skills and are supported with reasonable financial solutions – people who will want and seek our assistance.

We believe in partnerships with a broad cadre of institutional, academic development and engineering professionals who are willing to assist in building toward a more equitable and sustainable world.

We believe in environmentally sustainable projects that are symbiotic with the environment, society, and culture.

We believe in education that will develop a new generation of engineering students, who will benefit from many facets of engineering solutions to students, who will benefit from many facets of engineering solutions to problems in developing communities beyond technical obtained in their curriculum and in the education of host-community partners.

We believe in ethics that require the highest level of integrity ethics that promote honestly, communications and forthright disclosure – ethics that promote human dignity, value and respect of diversity – ethics that promote social responsibility and appropriate action – ethics that promote fairness and equitable distribution of time, effort, and resources – ethics that promote responsibility to share our skills and resources – ethics that recognize that people should not be exploited through the use of technology.

We also believe that the non-engineering components of local needs are almost always more complicated than the engineering aspects, and we seek to instill this reality within the engineering students that are an integral of the entire process.