Belen Team has started coordination with a major corporate sponsor (to be announced later) regarding receiving financial and equipment support for the construction of the clinic. We expect start receiving substantial contributions in the spring of 2010.


Amazon Promise has completed construction of a temporary "pre-clinic" on an adjacent property (see the photo below). EWB Belen Team will be working on designing and building of water purification system and a sanitation system for this new structure. This will provide a unique opportunity to field-test scaled-down versions of these system for the main clinic and gain critically important experience of doing work in the area.


The conceptual design of the clinic has been finalized (see renderings below) and the team is now concentrating on preparing submittals for the local regulatory approval.

Recent Updates

It's been a while and well overdue for a project Blog Update...

The Architectural/Sustainability/Systems Integration group of the Belen project has experienced a rapid (and timely) growth over the course of the past month. Many talented and experienced architects have jointed our team and are now moving ahead with finalizing the architectural design, which had undergone a considerable evolution following the analysis of the results of last fall's assessment trip to Belen.

Effective of April 3rd, Mr. Mashiyat Ashraf, an experienced architect, will take a lead on managing the architectural design process.

In addition to the good news, the Architectural/Sustainability/Systems Integration group has provided new sketches of the Clinic.

Let's get started!

The Structural and Geotech group has officially started the design of the clinic!


For the past few weeks we have been meeting - updating drawings, finalizing loads, researching codes, updating the ever changing BOD, and even the modeling of the building in etabs.


Last week we had an updated meeting with the Architectural group to trade ideas and get pointed in the right direction.

Exciting times... and the best is yet to come.