The Northern Virginia Professional Chapter of EWB-USA is a group of professionals dedicated to helping communities around the world achieve a better quality of life through sustainable development and community empowerment. EWB-NOVA was founded in 2014 and includes volunteer professionals from across Virginia and the Washington DC Metro area.

   Today,  EWB-NOVA attracts over a hundred professionals who are interested in developing and empowering communities and organizations in need. Together, we are making change and providing engineering support to communities abroad and here at home! We have served communities in:

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• El Sauce, Honduras

• ​Cedar Gulch, South Dakota

• Charlotte Hall, Maryland

• ​Alexandria, Virginia

• Caroline County, Virginia

   EWB-USA, a national non-profit organization, partners with developing communities worldwide and continues to improve the lives of people around the world through basic infrastructure projects such as finding solutions to clean drinking water and proper sanitation. EWB-USA includes over 15,900 volunteers who empower communities to meet these basic human needs.