I’m very honoured to be presenting at this years Engineers Without Borders Humanitarian Engineering Conference in Auckland on 27th July. I attended last year just before heading off on my journey to Vanuatu and it was a great little primer for my first jaunt into development.
One year on and I have had a very full and fulfilling year working in rural water supply development on Santo Island in Vanuatu. On top of that I have been heavily involved with the emergency response for those evacuated from Ambae Island to Santo due to volcanic ash fall last year.
I was lucky to be invited by Engineers without Borders (EWB) to the 2018 Humanitarian Engineering conference the week before my departure to Vanuatu to join the Department of Water Resources (DoWR) in Luganville. This was especially good timing, given that the Director of the DoWR, Erickson Sammy, was a keynote speaker on the day. There was also a large focus on projects in Vanuatu, which gave me an exciting taste of what lay ahead of me.
