I have come to Mumbai, India for four months to work in an NGO called Aga Khan Planning and Building Services India, through a middleman charity Challenges Worldwide. AKPBSI work to alleviate poverty through the provision of safe sustainable sanitation and habitat initiatives, so I have rocked up to get in on the action.
This isn\’t your run of the mill, dig a well and build a school job, I am a Structural Engineering Masters Student at Heriot-Watt University and am here in a professional capacity. At work I take the role of a consulting engineer. The company outsources the majority of their engineering work, but this means that there is only 1 engineer-come-architect in the office where the decisions are to be made, the rest are urban planners, health experts, sociologists.
At the moment there are several large projects starting. One is in the Darukana Slums, where AKPBSI are starting a 5 year programme to improve various aspects of life, an other is to do with rural non-engineered housing in disaster prone areas. I will be working on both of these projects.
This blog will detail things I get up to and things I see, both at work and outside.
via http://wingingitinindia.blogspot.com.
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