June CASE on ServiceBook
Bridget Hill of California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo is the June CASE ServiceBook Monthly award winner. She received $1000 for her project to design and construct a manual water pump to improve an African community's ability to create a sustainable food source. This project's target community in Malawi, Africa, currently suffers from a lack of a reliable food source and therefore must depend on foreign and governmental aid during dry seasons. Without consistent food, the Malawians are unable to focus on other entrepreneurial opportunities in order to pull them out of poverty. The focus of this project is to provide Malawians in this impoverished area with an affordable, locally available (and repairable) manual pump to support local agriculture.
