About Us
The Community Engineering Corps at Engineers Without Borders New York Professional Chapter was formed to help better the community in NYC. Though EWB is typically focused on global projects, this committee works projects locally to better the city that this chapter calls home.
Our chapter has established a relationship with the Jackson Forest Community Garden in Morrisania, a neighborhood in the Bronx with one of the highest poverty rates in NYC. The community garden provides access to the outdoors and a shared green space, improving the physical and mental health of visitors and participants, and promotes the positive exchange of information, food, and culture in the neighborhood. This community garden serves as a place for neighbors to grow fresh produce, host educational workshops, and organize neighborhood gatherings.
In 2019, the team designed and constructed a pathway that would increase accessibility of the garden to elderly and disabled community members and improve the garden’s ability to provide educational gatherings
In late 2019, our team application was approved to begin a new project in partnership with environmental non-profit GrowNYC to provide a design for solar shade structures in their community gardens. In 2020, volunteer structural engineers and CEC team members collaborated virtually with GrowNYC on designs from the schematic to final stages to bring this project to completion.
In early 2020, our team application was approved to begin the technical design of the Morris Campus Farm solar electrification project. Morris Campus Farm is an educational farm that serves four schools in Morrisania. This farm provides access to green space and environmental learning opportunities to students at the schools. The technical design is completed and undergoing panel review.
Our regular meetings are the second Monday of the month in person. Contact Michelle at community@ewbny.org to get involved.
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