Creating paths to progress with safe crossings and clean water.
We work with underserved communities and global partners to execute sustainable engineering projects that build local capacity and improve access to essential resources.
EIA seeks to alleviate rural poverty by leveraging the resources of our global partners to engage underserved communities and their governments to implement life-changing Bridge and WASH projects, simultaneously providing solutions to rural poverty and building local capacity to maintain those solutions for generations to come.
LOCAL EXPERTISE
Talented local staff build trust and a strong sense of shared investment by understanding each community’s history, culture, and strengths and by speaking the local indigenous languages.
CHANGING LIVES, ONE PROJECT AT A TIME
Each year, EIA improves the lives of over 20,000 people by helping them build critical infrastructure in their communities. Success starts with the way we do our work, which maximizes the impact of the time, expertise, and dollars that are invested.
LASTING CHANGE
Empowering a community for the long-term takes more than just bricks and mortar. We help communities set up strong oversight and management practices and train members to maintain and safely operate their infrastructure.
EIA builds the critical infrastructure people need to prevent death, unlock economic productivity, and change lives. Since 2015, EIA’s Bolivia and Ecuador programs have completed over 120 WASH projects benefiting over 33,000 community partners. The EIA Bridge Program has worked since 2006 with hundreds of students from 40+ universities to design and build over 110 footbridges in 12 countries, serving over 150,000 people.
“For the first time in my life, thanks to the strong support system they provide us with, EIA showed me that I have the capacity to take action to make a change. I am now more confident in tackling new challenges and thinking outside of the box to solve more problems as a future engineer.”
— Leilah Sory, McGill University
