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<!DOCTYPE html>
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<title>Columbia EWB - Morocco</title>
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<li class="selected"><a href="#home">Home</a></li>
<li><a href="#about">About Us</a>
<li><a href="#bridge">Bridge Project</a></li>
<li><a href="#water">Water Project</a></li>
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<li><a href="#donate"><b>Donate!</b></a></li>
<li><a href="http://cuewb.org/">Chapter Home</a></li>
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<img src="images/MoroccoHeader.png" alt="Engineers Without Borders-USA: Columbia University Student Chapter // Morocco Program" />
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<section id="about" class="page-section">
<h1 class="section-title">About Us</h1>
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<h2 class="section-buzz">Our program is comprised of <span>passionate students</span> committed to improving lives abroad through <span>creative</span> and <span>sustainable</span> engineering <span>solutions</span>.</h2>
<div class="section-desc">
<p>The Columbia University chapter of Engineers Without Borders aims to address the problems facing people
both locally and overseas by leveraging the skills, talents, and passions of Columbia University
students and the sponsorships formed with our organization. Our members come from many different
arts, sciences, and engineering backgrounds, who collectively share a desire to do meaningful
work and make a difference.</p>
<p>The chapter currently consists of three programs in Ghana, Uganda, and Morocco.
The <a href="http://ghana.cuewb.org/" target="_blank">Ghana program</a>,
which started in 2004, used to work in the semi-urban town of Sakyikrom but
now focuses on water management in the farming community of Obodan. In 2008,
the <a href="http://uganda.cuewb.org" target="_blank">Uganda program</a> was
established to install a Multi-Function Energy Platform in the Soroti region.
The Morocco program, which began in 2011, finished building a <a href="#bridge">bridge</a>
in the rural community of Ait Bayoud in June 2013 and is now and is now working
on providing safe and easily accessible drinking water directly to the communities
of Izgouaren and Ilguiloda through a water sourcing and distribution system.
Each project draws from the skills of its members to provide technical solutions to worldwide
problems.</p>
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<h1 class="section-title">Bridge Project</h1>
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<h2 class="section-subtitle"><span>Ait Bayoud</span>, a rural Moroccan community in the Essaouira region,
experiences <span>seasonal flooding</span> of its central Tagawowt river that <span>disrupts access</span> to the local <span>health clinic</span>, <span>school</span>, and <span>markets</span> for hundreds of residents.</h2>
<h2 class="section-buzz">The <span>Morocco program</span> of Columbia's EWB-USA chapter began in 2011 when Nina Morency-Brassard, a Columbia alumna and Peace Corps volunteer stationed in Ait Bayoud, reached out to our chapter with a collaborative <span>project proposal</span>.</h2>
<div class="section-desc">
<p>To address the flooding of the Tagawowt river, the community suggested a bridge project to EWB-USA CU so
that the river could be safely and consistently crossed during the rainy season. Along with professional
structural engineers, various Peace Corps volunteers, and a host of community leaders and workers in Ait
Bayoud, the students of the Morocco project have worked to fund, design, and source materials for the
implementation of a 210ft suspension footbridge.</p>
<p>In the summer of 2011 and the winter of 2012, two assessment teams gathered technical data and determined
a bridge site. In the summer of 2012, implementation of the bridge began. Over the course of 6 weeks, our
team of students and professional mentors worked alongside local workers in Ait Bayoud to clear and prepare
the bridge sites, mix and pour the concrete foundations and towers, and install each of the bridge's main
cables. In the winter of 2013, we sent a team to assess the state of the bridge, and in the summer we sent
two final project teams. They tensioned the bridge cables, installed decking, and completed the project.
Following the bridge’s completion in June 2013, CU-EWB Morocco has maintained and improved the completed
footbridge, performing extensive inspections every six months and successfully pre-tensioning a new rope
in the summer of 2017. Teams have recently focused on fully transitioning ownership and maintenance of
the bridge to the community, creating a useful picture-based guide and facilitating community-led bridge
inspections.</p>
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<img src="images/bridge/b1.jpg" title="Workers mixing and pouring the concrete needed for foundations and towers." />
<img src="images/bridge/b2.jpg" title="Bridge cables in the process of being lowered and spliced." />
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<img src="images/bridge/b3.jpg" title='Tensioning the cables using a "block and tackle" pulley system.' />
<img src="images/bridge/b4.jpg" title='The improvised "traveler" we used to allow access to the underside of the decking.' />
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<img src="images/bridge/b5.jpg" title="A decking simulation performed during the winter 2013 assessment trip." />
<img src="images/bridge/b6.jpg" title="Safety was our primary concern throughout the project." />
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<img src="images/bridge/b7.jpg" title="The netting we applied to the sides of the bridge is more than strong enough to stop a person's fall." />
<img src="images/bridge/b8.jpg" title="The workers from Ait Bayoud were the first ones to cross the bridge they helped to build." />
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<img src="images/bridge/b9.jpg" title="The community of Ait Bayoud threw a festive celebration full of music, food, and dancing to celebrate the opening of the bridge." />
<img src="images/bridge/b10.jpg" title="The completed 210ft bridge will make crossing the river below exponentially easier during the rainy season and facilitate access to primary education and medical care." />
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<h1 class="section-title">Water Project</h1>
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<h2 class="section-subtitle">The members of <span>Izgouaren</span>, one of a series of dwars or neighborhood
clusters that make up Ait Bayoud, spend up to <span>4 hours a day</span> walking <span>to get water</span>.</h2>
<h2 class="section-buzz">While assessing the community of Ait Bayoud during her Peace Corps Service, Nina
noticed another <span>pressing issue</span> to the <span>quality of life</span>.</h2>
<div class="section-desc">
<p>Ait Bayoud consists of a series of dwars, or neighborhood clusters, that are staggered along the river.
Izgouaren, a dwar isolated on a raised plateau, suffers from limited access to water. Every day,
families walk back and forth down to the river to gather water from a nearby spring, spending about an
hour per trip and making up to 3 trips a day.</p>
<p>To address this issue, a team consisting of Columbia students as well as Peace Corps Volunteers
visited Izgouaren in January 2014 and began to assess the dwar's needs, the river conditions, and
Ait Bayoud's current water sourcing status. We sent one additional assessment travel team in the summer
of 2014 to measure the flow rate of multiple springs and the river near Izgouaren, to determine a
piping path to transport water to the dwars, and to perform water quality tests on the sources of water.
Using the information collected during the two assessment trips, the winter 2015 team returned and
successfully constructed a shallow well along the river.</p>
<p>As of summer 2019 we have constructed a concrete water storage tank, installed solar panels to power
a pump at the well, and laid approximately 4km of HDPE pipeline between the wellsite, concrete tank and
the Ilguiloda dwar, which lies between the pipeline and Izgouaren. Tap stands accessible by the Ilguiloda
community have also been constructed. The COVID-19 pandemic precluded in-person implementation in the
summer of 2020, which led us to focus on community development and building relationships with local
organizations. Extension of the pipeline from Ilguiloda to Izgouaren is postponed until travel restrictions
are lifted. Additionally, we intend to construct two more tanks, one as a break pressure and the other a
storage tank including a slow sand filter, and construct tap stands to ensure all community members have
access to the water. </p>
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<img src="images/water/w4.jpg" title="Our well successfully hit water in winter 2015!">
<img src="images/water/w2.jpg" title="Scouting a second possible pipeline route." />
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<img src="images/water/w1.jpg" title="Workers scouting one possible route for the new pipline." />
<img src="images/water/w3.jpg" title="Inspecting an existing pipeline in Ait Bayoud." />
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<img src="images/water/w5.jpg" title="Current pipeline as of summer 2017." />
<img src="images/water/w6.jpg" title="Setting up small a hydrostatic test." />
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<img src="images/water/w7.jpg" title="Workers standing next to completed temporary distribution site." />
<img src="images/water/w8.jpg" title="One of the many springs along the main river." />
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<img src="images/water/w9.jpg" title="Gathering data to determine water conditions." />
<img src="images/water/w10.jpg" title="The existing well at Ilguilada." />
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<h1 class="section-title">Updates</h1>
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<h2 class="section-buzz">Our work takes place both on-site in <span>Ait Bayoud</span> and back home in <span>New York</span>. Check out our <span>updates</span> to see what we've been up to!</h2>
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<a class="twitter-timeline" href="https://twitter.com/CUEWB_Morocco" data-widget-id="433422587788402688">Tweets by @CUEWB_Morocco</a>
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<h1 class="section-title">Donate</h1>
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<h2 class="section-subtitle">We appreciate all the help we can get! Any contribution, no matter how small, goes directly to helping the people of Ait Bayoud.</h2>
<h3 class="section-subtitle section-small">Please consider contributing to our cause - your tax deductible donations will go a long way.</h3>
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<a href="https://support.ewb-usa.org/fundraise/team?ftid=156084" target="_blank"><button class="donate-button2">Donate Today</button></a>
<a href="images/InformationPacketv3.pdf" target="_blank"><button class="donate-button2">View our sponsorship package here</button></a>
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<h1 class="section-title">Sponsors</h1>
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<h2 class="section-subtitle section-small">The work we do would not be possible without the generous support of our sponsors:</h2>
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<a class="image-link" href="http://www.delta.com" target="_blank"><img src="images/sponsors/delta.png" alt="Delta" /></a>
<a class="image-link" href="http://www.davisprojectsforpeace.org/" target="_blank"><img src="images/sponsors/p4p.png" alt="Projects for Peace" /></a>
<a class="image-link" href="http://www.hntb.com/" target="_blank"><img src="images/sponsors/hntb.png" alt="HNTB" /></a>
<a class="image-link" href="http://www.boeing.com/boeing/" target="_blank"><img src="images/sponsors/boeing.png" alt="Boeing" /></a>
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<a class="image-link" href="http://www.peacecorps.gov/" target="_blank"><img src="images/sponsors/pc.png" alt="Peace Corps" /></a>
<a class="image-link" href="http://www.erm.com/" target="_blank"><img src="images/sponsors/erm.png" alt="ERM" /></a>
<a class="image-link" href="http://cuengineeringalumni.org/" target="_blank"><img src="images/sponsors/ceaa.png" alt="Columbia Engineering Alumni Association" /></a>
<a class="image-link" href="https://www.alcoa.com/global/en/home.asp" target="_blank"><img src="images/sponsors/alcoa.png" alt="Alcoa Foundation" /></a>
<a class="image-link" href="http://www.bridgestoprosperity.org/" target="_blank"><img src="images/sponsors/b2p.png" alt="Bridges to Prosperity" /></a>
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<h3>Contact</h3>
<p>Program Managers: <a href="mailto:[email protected]" target="_blank">Will Fu</a> and <a href="mailto:[email protected]" target="_blank">Ananya Natchukuri</a></p>
<p>Meetings: Thursdays @ 6:30pm (Lerner 302)</p>
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<h3>About this Website</h3>
<p>This site was designed using the latest standards in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript by <a href="http://alexkalicki.com/" target="_blank">Alex Kalicki</a>, a member of the Morocco PR team.</p>
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<h3>Press</h3>
<p>Press and media inquiries? Please contact our <a href="mailto:[email protected]" target="_blank">PR chair</a> for more information.</p>
<h3>Legal</h3>
<p>Copyright © <span class="year">2014</span> Columbia University Engineers Without Borders. All rights reserved.</p>
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