Where will you start today?
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I want to give
Your gift backs the work communities lead: clean water, safe toilets, power that keeps running.
Ways to give -
I am a student
Take on a real design challenge, join an immersive program, or find your people at a university chapter.
Student opportunities -
I am a professional
Volunteer your skills, bring training to your team, or sharpen your own practice.
Put your skills to work -
I am a teacher
Show your students what engineering can do, with hands-on STEM Discovery workshops and ready-to-use resources.
Bring it to your classroom
Communities are leading change right now
They set the priorities: safe drinking water, sanitation, stronger livelihoods, a changing climate. We bring engineering, and the skills stay.
Side by side. Built together. Owned by community.
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First Nations Australia
First Nations communities leading engineering on Country.
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Cambodia
Safer sanitation and inclusive design, led by communities with local partners.
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Timor-Leste
Solutions designed and driven by the communities who use them.
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Vanuatu
Accessible infrastructure built for a changing climate, shaped by the communities who rely on it.
Five principles, wherever we work
Communities lead. These keep us honest.
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Building skills Local people lead, and the skills stay long after the project ends.
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Everyone included Everyone has the right to be heard, included and safe.
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Children kept safe Every child has the right to be safe, always.
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Caring for the planet What we build today must not cost the next generation.
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Built to last Owned by the community, funded to keep going, still working years from now.
Your chapter. Your challenge.
Chapters are student-led EWB groups at universities across Australia. The EWB Challenge is a real-world design program you take on through your university course. Pick your path and jump in.
News and media
Latest news
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Reconciliation · Partnerships
Going All In: Honouring our partnership with RMIT University during National Reconciliation Week
Reconciliation takes commitment, sustained action and lasting partnership. That conviction shapes our work with RMIT University.
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Media Release · Eng on Country
EWB calls on sector to close the remote water gap
More than 400 remote communities in Australia are still waiting for safe drinking water.
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Media Release · Eng on Country
EWB Australia establishes local government partnership model with Walgett Shire Council
A new Memorandum of Understanding establishes a First Nations Water Security Local Government Partnership, the first of its kind.
Read the media release
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Where your support goes
Thank you. Here's what your giving made possible in 2024–25
Your giving at work
79.8%
of our total expenditure went to our international and domestic programs.
International programs
63.4%
Domestic programs
16.4%
Fundraising
8.5%
Accountability and administration
11.7%
2024–25 financial year. Every dollar is accounted for in our annual report.
View the annual report