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Engineers Without Borders Visit Chirimoto, Peru

  • Posted on August 27, 2011 at 10:40 am

A rooster begins to crow before dawn, a pained screech that five engineering students from BU’s student chapter of Engineers Without Borders know all too well. Thankfully, the shriek means they still have two hours before they have to climb out of their sleeping bags and compete for the single, slow-drip, slightly warm shower. A little more sleep would be useful, because as soon as breakfast is done they will lug nearly 60 pounds of surveying equipment up to the ridgeline above the Peruvian village of Chirimoto, hacking a trail with machetes much of the way. By day’s end, if all goes well, they will return to the village with a better understanding of the system of aged pipes that delivers water to 300 people deep in the Amazonas region. With that knowledge, they will refine their plan for reconstructing the failing pipes and filters, a project that will give the families of Chirimoto a more reliable — and healthier — supply of water. For six weeks last summer, the group from BU’s three-year-old EWB chapter worked in the hills around Chirimoto, and they hope to return over winter break and again next summer. The students came to at the urging of Chirimoto native Luis Chavez (GRS’04,’10), a Ph.D. candidate and a College of Arts & Sciences senior teaching fellow in Spanish. “When I returned to Chirimoto after much time away, I saw there was a lot missing,” says Chavez, a novelist and poet. “I saw that my town needs infrastructure. We need education. We need health.” Three …

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