My main goal as an engineer is to use my skills to give back to my community in any way that I can, but entering Georgia Tech, I was lost as to where I would gain the skills to do that. But, I found an organization with people sharing similar…

My name is Isaiah Osazuwa and I had the pleasure of working with Wish for Wash in the summer of 2021 as a member of Columbia University’s Summer Public Health Scholars Program (SPHSP). …

20 December, 2021 | Atlanta, GA — Wish for Wash Thinks, a member organization of Engineers without Borders Georgia Tech, has just completed another semester. My name is Will Skillen; I am a member of the Off-Grid Sanitation subteam. Grace Taylor, a master’s student at Georgia Tech, will be finishing…

This year has been a whirlwind of craziness and unexpected events, but it has been a learning and growing experience for us all. One of the most impactful things I have done was presenting to the International Rescue Committee for refugees as a part of Wish for Wash. My co-lead…

Soon after arriving at Georgia Tech, Engineers Without Borders piqued my interest through their mission to apply engineering principles to uplift humanity. In particular, the Wish for Wash Team caught my attention as they focused on improving institutional structures within the local Atlanta community. As I began to work more…

I started with search terms such as ‘menstrual health companies’ and ‘bioplastics menstrual health brands’. I discovered that many of the companies that promote environmentally friendly methods, such as organic, biodegradable, biobased, etc., appear to come from the EU and are mostly small or instagram based businesses. In contrast, I…

While researching companies that produce menstrual products, I realized that a lot of brands sell a variety of products that might not include tampons and pads. Our team is focusing on bioplastics and biodegradable plastics, so we decided to focus on the main products: tampons and pads. …

The methods for my research began with using specific search terms in order to narrow my results regarding information about the menstrual health companies that I found. To find these companies, I simply searched up online and picked ten companies that sold some form of feminine products. Some of the…

I began my research by searching for the basic players in the menstrual products sphere, focusing mostly on the most prominent European companies such as Bella and Lunette. After this, I then began specifically researching for sustainable menstrual health companies in the hopes that I would find those that had…