BLUElab Bangladesh

Project Leader(s):     
Kiersten White (kiewhite@umich.edu)
Abrar Iqbal (iqbalab@umich.edu) 

Project Location(s): Dhaka, Bangladesh

Current Focus: Develop a sustainable prototype based on data collected from our needs-assessment trip.

Mission: Our mission is to promote technological development in underdeveloped areas of Bangladesh through multidisciplinary, sustainable engineering solutions.

Vision: To empower passionate students of different disciplines and backgrounds to collectively add value to underprivileged communities in Bangladesh.

Team History: Our team was founded in January 2018 and integrated into BLUELab in March 2018. We conducted our first Partnership Evaluation Trip to Bangladesh in July of 2018 and ended up partnering with SPREEHA Foundation. In the Summer of 2019, we conducted our Needs-Assessment Trip filtering into two final needs statements.

Partner Organization: SPREEHA Foundation

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