Welcome to Abheypur is a documentary movie that I am close to finishing. It offers a first hand retelling of my experience in Abheypur, India. Along with four other engineers, and a village of people, I helped build a water storage system to supply the community with potable drinking water. While there, we had to adapt our design on the fly and rehabilitate a previous storage system that had stopped working. Our 15 days of project work were packed with data collection, resident meetings, design decisions, construction challenges, and even a wedding!

(Water storage tank in Abheypur, India)

The trip was organized and funded by the Hartford Professional Chapter of Engineers Without Borders. Now, they are organizing another trip to Sabhung, Nepal, to implement a similar water resource project. I had such an amazing experience in India, that I want to give back and be able to help fund a similar experience to a fellow engineer in the Hartford Professional Chapter.

(Community meeting in Sabhung, Nepal)

I'm hoping to use the documentary project to raise $3,000. This will help me finish the movie and help me cover the cost, mostly travel costs, of getting one person from Connecticut to Nepal, and then to the village. Any left over money will be used to purchase materials and supplies for the water resource project.

Check out the video above for the trailer of Welcome to Abheypur.

(Project team with community representatives in Abheypur, India)