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Shrewsbury Resident to Help With Ethiopian Project
The senior civil engineering student will help repair a water tower for a school for blind people.
A Shrewsbury resident will travel to Africa this summer to help with an Engineers Without Borders USA project.
Christian Glock, a civil engineering student at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, will leave May 12 for the project, notes an article from the university's website. The senior will join fellow UMSL student Todd Bergman during a two-week trip to Ethiopia.
They will help repair a water tower for a school for blind people, the article notes.
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“The existing slab on top is just failing. It was really poorly constructed,” said Bergman in the article.
The full article is available on the university's website.
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