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Engineers Without Borders – Puerto Rico Professional Chapter (EWB–PR) is a non-profit humanitarian organization established to partner with developing communities of Puerto Rico in order to improve their quality of life. It is Puerto Rico's group representing the larger international Engineers Without Borders in the USA. This partnership involves the implementation of sustainable engineering projects, while involving and training internationally responsible engineers and engineering students.

History
Engineers Without Borders – PR's (EWB-PR) history started when Cathy Leslie (EWB CEO), Thomas Rebbecchi (EWB Hartford President) and Aaron Pepin (Guatemala Project Lead) visited Pratt and Whitney Puerto Rico (PWPR) at Aguadilla. They presented to the PWPR employees their desired to increase their impact and acquire new volunteers. It was a successful conference. They were able to acquire volunteers for the United Technologies Corp (UTC) Guatemala project and started the interest of the employees in the Engineers Without Borders organization.

After several months a group of Pratt & Whitney Puerto Rico employees started the What’s In My BackYard (WIMBY) process, looking for projects around the island of Puerto Rico. There were two incredible projects, Hogar Santa Teresita del Niño Jesús in Arecibo and with Comunidad Educativa Montessori Intregral (CEMI) School at Cabo Rojo.

Finally, in March 9, 2020, after a lot of effort from the EWB - PR board of directors the chapter was officially approved as the EWB Puerto Rico Professional Chapter.