Tri-Pod Set up
I traveled to Apatut in November, as a part of the first travel team, along with Bob DiFlippo and Steve Kim. Having never been to the Philippines, or anywhere else in Asia, I did quite a bit of “Googling” before the trip, and I quickly learned how diverse this country is. It is comprised of…
During the most recent assessment trip to Apatut in November 2014, the teachers at the community’s elementary school requested a Tippy Tap for student and faculty use. A Tippy Tap functions as a sink in places where running water may not be available. Therefore, in lieu of a sink, a Tippy Tap is essential for…
The EWB-MAP team scheduled a trip to Apatut for additional assessments and investigations October 27-November 16; the trip was broken down in two phases, with four members arriving in Apatut October 29 (Walt Walker, Bob DiFilippo, Steve Kim, Anne-Marie Biser) and two additional persons arriving on November 5. We arrived during the week of an…
Often as engineers, we can be found focusing overwhelmingly on the technical issues surrounding a particular problem that we are presented with. With good reason, of course – we understand well that we need to arrive at practical solutions by leveraging our tool box of scientific principals, empirical formulas, and our trusty skills in mathematics….
I spent ten days living in Apatut, a small farming community in Balaoan, a municipality within the province of La Union, about 300 km northwest of Manila. Michael Baker Jr., Inc. sponsored me to travel to the Phillippines for EWB-MAP (Engineers without Borders Mid-Atlantic Professionals) to oversee well drilling and to prepare for later design…
Robert DiFilippo and I visited Apatut last April. One of our goals for the trip was to build a tippy-tap at the community elementary school and to present the students with effective sanitation practices. Tippy-taps were first developed by Dr. Jim Watt of the Salvation Army in Chiweshe, Zimbabwe1 and are now used in several…