Every summer, engineering students from NTNU take part in a non-profit humanitarian aid project in Nepal. They spend their holiday repairing hospital equipment.
Project Nepal NTNU is an annual project where engineering students from NTNU take part in a non-profit humanitarian aid project in Nepal during the summer. The goal of the project is to repair medical equipment at local hospitals.
The project is coordinated by Engineering World Health (in collaboration with Technical University of Denmark), and consists of a three week course in Copenhagen in Denmark, before six weeks of work in Nepal.
In Nepal they receive language and cultural training before being placed in hospitals all over the country. In 2016, 2017 and 2018, 703 machines with a total value of approximately NOK 12,2 million (USD 1,4 million ) were repaired. In addition, there is a focus on transferring knowledge in the form of teaching the locals and creating easy-to-read manuals.
Students from NTNU first joined the EWH Summer Institute when Kristin Lorentzen Landsem went to Nepal in 2016. The following year, eight students participated, five in 2018, and last summer ten NTNU students took part in the project.
On their blog you can follow them in the process of preparation in Denmark and also during their stay in Nepal.