Group Of Engineers Work To Improve Conditions For Refugees
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Solidarity Engineering, made up of three female engineers, is trying to bring cleanliness and clean water to crowded border camps.
A park in Reynosa, Mexico is now home to roughly 3,000 asylum seekers on any given day, praying to be allowed just steps away into the United States. Katterín Chavez fled violence and death threats in her native Honduras after her brother was murdered. She had held an office job there, and now she's chief among a crew of hygiene workers at the camp.
Cleanliness is a luxury at the ever-growing, crowded camp, but three women, all engineers, are trying to change that by helping thousands stay relatively clean and disease-free.
Texan Christa Cook and Coloradan Chloe Rastatter met in 2020 giving care to people stuck at another refugee camp in Matamoros, Mexico under the ironically named "Migrant Protection Protocols." The pair, along with Erin Hughes - a former Philadephia Water Department employee who now helps with hydro-engineering - founded Solidarity Engineering.
