The region is one of the places in the world with the most frequent lightning strikes and with Polytech's knowledge and technical know-how on lightning discharge, is an entire school compound with teacher housing and classrooms now secured against lightning.
“We are proud to be joining Engineers Without Borders – Denmark. It has always been very important to us to give back to local communities and promote sustainable development. With our wide range of engineering expertise in-house, we are looking forward to contributing to projects with other donors.
We firmly believe that collaboration and innovation is the way forward, especially if we want to build a sustainable future. Because if we use our skills and abilities at the right place and the right time, we can go a long way together. It is also important to remember that humanitarian and environmental disasters are not confined to borders – and our consideration and help should not be either.”
- Mads Kirkegaard, CEO Polytech A/S
Engineers Without Borders - Denmark is very pleased that the Danish wind energy company wants to contribute to EWB-DK’s work.
“Engineers Without Borders offers Danish companies a completely unique technical platform, where they can bring their technical professionalism into play for the world's poorest and thus work for the Global Development Sustainable Goals. We warmly welcome Polytech and hope their employees are curious to become part of our volunteer work as well.”
- Bent Michael Nielsen, Chairman of the board, EWB-DK
EWB-DK has helped 5,000 people in Sierra Leone so they now have access to clean drinking water
