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Technology can empower and liberate. A single, effective product has more potential for worldwide impact – by providing clean water, food, shelter, or income – than any other existing development approach. Through the introduction of inexpensive and simple yet life-altering products the lives of more than 2 billion poverty-stricken people around the globe can be dramatically improved.

OUR MISSION: To sustainably improve the lives of the world’s poorest and most disadvantaged through the development and implementation of contextually appropriate products.

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Catapult Design is a non-profit design consultancy that provides engineering and implementation support to organizations in need of technologies or products capable of igniting social change. We are engineers, designers, implementers, and educators – we design products, introduce technologies, and foster trends that are appropriate, self-sustaining, environmentally friendly, socially responsible and culturally sensitive.

By leveraging the developing world experience of Engineers Without Borders – USA and the capacities of a motivated volunteer pool and staff engineers, we provide an unparalleled range of consulting services. Our core offerings include the assessment, development, and implementation of contextually appropriate products. In addition, we offer a number of educational programs focused on design for the developing world.

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Catapult Co-Founder, Heather Fleming, 2008 Pop!Tech Social Innovation Fellow

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History

Established in January 2008, Catapult Design is the design initiative of Engineers Without Borders-USA, an international humanitarian organization established to partner with developing communities worldwide in order to improve their quality of life. Catapult Design is an effort by EWB-USA to establish a stronger foundation in design thinking, product development, technology implementation, and impact evaluation in the development community. Engineers Without Borders –USA is a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit organization.

Engineers Without Borders - USA (EWB-USA) is a non-profit humanitarian organization established to partner with developing communities worldwide in order to improve their quality of life. This partnership involves the implementation of sustainable engineering projects, while involving and training internationally responsible engineers and engineering students. Started in 2000, EWB-USA has experienced massive growth both nationally and internationally. In the eight years since its inception, EWB-USA has established over 200 individual chapters with more than 170 ongoing projects in 41 nations.