Become a small giant
We believe that in pursuit of achieving our vision requires the support and actions of each of us working towards a more equal and sustainable future.
EWB works to raise awareness across our members of the ways in which they can have an impact on individual, local, national and international level.
Reconciliation Action Plans (RAP's)
In 2008, EWB completed our first Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP) and we’ve recently celebrated with one of our Corporate Partners SKM at the completion of theirs.A RAP is a tool to help organisations build positive relationships between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people. It provides a format for exploring how reconciliation can advance business/organisational objectives. Plus it’s a public contribution towards the national effort to close the 17-year life expectancy gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous children.
Read our RAP
For further information on RAPs and how to develop your own RAP you can visit Reconciliation Australia's website.
Campaigns to support
Our Carbon Footprint
EWB embarked on the journey of researching, measuring, reducing and offsetting our greenhouse emissions from our own operations.
What is a carbon footprint you ask? A carbon footprint is a measure of the impact our activities have on the environment, and in particular climate change. It relates to the amount of greenhouse gases produced in our day-to-day lives through burning fossil fuels for electricity, heating and transportation etc.
The carbon footprint is a measurement of all greenhouse gases we individually produce and has units of tonnes (or kg) of carbon dioxide equivalent.
To find out more about measuring, reducing and offsetting your Carbon Footprint click here
Free Rice Game
For each answer you get right, 10 grains of rice will be donated through the UN Food Program to help end hunger.
Make Poverty History
In Australia, MAKEPOVERTYHISTORY is a coalition of aid agencies, community groups and celebrities. Along with their partner Micah Challenge, an alliance of Australian churches and Christian groups, over 50 Australian organisations are involved in the campaign.
The Australian coalition is part of the Global Call to Action Against Poverty, a worldwide alliance calling world leaders to live up to their promise and make a breakthrough on poverty. Engineers Without Borders joined the Make Poverty History Coalition in March 2006. Find out more about Making Poverty History here
Fair Trade
Here is a golden chance for your workplace to lead the engineering and technology sector in corporate social responsibility; become its first Fair Trade Workplace!
Well, actually the second- EWB became the first a while back, but far from taking your thunder, we will actively promote your workplace by featuring it in our newsletter, on our website and in presentations to people across the nation!
Its as easy as 1, 2, 3
1) Use Fairtrade certified products within your workplace
Convert staff rooms, canteens, board rooms and other buying units within the organisation to purchasing Fairtrade certified tea and coffee.
These products are widely available (e.g. through Corporate Express). The Fair Trade Association of Australia & New Zealand (FTAANZ) website has a purchasing guide, which lists sources of Fairtrade certified products around Australia, and an online searchable database.
2) Submit a very simple application form to FTAANZ
3) Promote fair trade within your workplace.
This can be as simple as putting up a poster on your noticeboard or in the staff room publicising that you are using Fairtrade certified coffee and tea. FTAANZ can supply you with a poster and other materials. Find out more about Fairtrade here
Easy as 1, 2, 3-
1) Use Fairtrade certified products within your workplace
Convert staff rooms, canteens, board rooms and other buying units within the organisation to purchasing Fairtrade certified tea and coffee.
These products are widely available (e.g. through Corporate Express). The Fair Trade Association of Australia & New Zealand (FTAANZ) website has a purchasing guide, which lists sources of Fairtrade certified products around Australia, and an online searchable database.
2) Submit a very simple application form to FTAANZ
3) Promote fair trade within your workplace.
This can be as simple as putting up a poster on your noticeboard or in the staff room publicising that you are using Fairtrade certified coffee and tea. FTAANZ can supply you with a poster and other materials.
If you decide to try to make this happen in your workplace then we'd be interested to know how you go (regardless of the outcome). Please email Todd Houstein, EWB Director of Awareness & Action.
What is Fairtrade?
Fairtrade is a tool for development that ensures disadvantaged farmers and workers in developing countries get a better deal through the use of the international FAIRTRADE Mark. It ensures they get a fair price for their produce, but that's not all...
A sum of money paid on top of the agreed Fairtrade price is paid to the producers for investment in social, environmental or economic development projects. This 'Fairtrade premium' is typically invested in education and healthcare, farm improvements to increase yield and quality, or processing facilities to increase income.
Fairtrade figures
- 7 million: the number of farmers, workers and their family members who currently benefit from Fairtrade (and this number is growing!)
- Half a billion: the amount in British Pounds spent on Fairtrade certified products in the UK last year!
- Fairtrade spans almost 80 countries, working with 632 producer partners from 58 countries and across 21 Fairtrade markets in Europe, North America, Australia, New Zealand, Mexico and Japan.
- ZERO: The number of companies in Australia's engineering/technical sector officially supporting Fairtrade... Will you make this one?