Partnership with Engineers without borders

EWB International is an international association of national EWB movements. Many of these national organizations are very young and I actually think many of them are strugling with what they could do at all. The national organizations have many members that are students and have much will to help, but may have less clues about how they realy can help. Going to developing countries and inventing cheap water cleaning and energy production systems probably is on many of the members minds, even if they don't know how to actually do this. And probably many imagines that once they have completed their education this will magically all happen in some way. But I think they might be less aware of the impact they actually can do right now at the moment by helping to develope the mediawiki software, support translators that finds markup languages troublesome. They could also help spreading the world about Wikimedia in developing countries in any educational programs they have there. Maybe students that studies technical subjects can help students studying languages to translate articles. Because I think their is a great will among many students to actually work on things that are for the better good of the world, but many have no clue about how.

This kind of work might be as much in line with their mission as any other project they undertake. All that is needed is that EWB International takes a stance that it is and actively encourages their members to do such work. EWB benefits from it because their members get a projects they can work on and wikimedia benefits from it becuase more volunteers works toward their goal.