Evan Thomas and Max Gold were two of Bernard Amadei’s earliest disciples in Engineers Without Borders-USA as undergrads at the University of Colorado-Boulder. Now they are taking their EWB-USA site experiences and soon-to-be-earned graduate engineering degrees in a new direction to build sustainability and long-term earning power in developing communities that once could only hope for philanthropy.
Thomas and Gold are leveraging the benefits of the first water treatment systems, biogas generators and high-efficiency cook stoves they and other EWB-USA volunteers installed in Rwanda in the past few years through a new business they hope will spread the technologies to 500 secondary schools and reach 250,000 students and teachers in the country.