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IEEE Society Restores Electricity To a Nepali School

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Until recently, the residents of Melamchi, Nepal, cooked meals and heated water for bathing over a wood-burning stove. Although the school had been rebuilt and new power lines had been installed, the electricity wasn’t reliable. Not surprisingly, the leaders said their priorities were access to reliable electricity and hot water.

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This Rwandan Engineer is Learning How to Manage Humanitarian Projects

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The IEEE member from Kigali, Rwanda, participated in installing portable sinks in nearby rural markets to curb the spread of COVID-19 and provided clean water and sanitation services to people displaced by the Mount Nyiragongo volcano eruption in 2021. This provides easy access to records and improves coordination of care.”

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