Between May 15th and June 2nd of 2006, a small team of five engineering students from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign chapter of Engineers Without Borders went to a small village of in southeastern Kenya named Usalama.

Working with the leader of the village along with dozens of other wonderful, committed individuals in the community, our chapter was able to assist Usalama in constructing three ventilation improved latrines at the town's commercial center and two at the primary school. We also had the pleasure of meeting many of the community's highly motivated youth. We worked with them to unlock ways in which they might apply their skills and motivation to benefit the community. With the help of our team, the youth group developed a lesson plan on health and sanitation and went into the primary school while class was in session to teach these lessons to Junior High students (Grades 6, 7, and 8).

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The final report and presentation for this project are attached below.