Excerpt from the Dayton Daily News
A pair of Wright State University engineering majors spent winter break completing the finishing touches on a humanitarian project to provide better sanitation for a rural school for girls in a Ugandan village.
Diana Johnson and Taylor Jacobs are members of Wright State’s chapter of Engineers Without Borders, a national organization that helps meet basic human needs in other countries.
Johnson is a junior from Troy majoring in industrial and systems engineering and minoring in computer science. She recently completed a term as chapter president.
Jacobs is a senior from Columbus majoring in mechanical engineering and is the chapter’s international project lead.
They left on Dec. 29 for a 30-plus-hour flight to the village of Kabingo in Uganda. They helped complete work started by previous Wright State students to build a clean water, restroom and hand-washing station at St. Bakhita’s Secondary School. Wright State joined the project in 2018.
The two students were at the school for seven days of their 10-day trip. They arose at 7 a.m. each workday for a roughly 90-minute drive to the remote school, where they worked a six-hour shift before returning to a guest house in Kabingo.
