Reena’s Exploration Challenge #107- Unbridgeable

A very interesting take by Theresaly ….

Culture Shocks

Hello all, Reena’s prompt resonated with me in a more literal way today. A few days ago, I watched a film: Dream Big: Engineering Our World. Geared towards children, it was inspirational and emotional, rather than technical. I would recommend to watch something else like National Geographic: Engineering the Impossible to learn more conceptual details about various engineering projects, but the movie nevertheless gave me warm fuzzy feelings and gripped my heart with a wonderful soundtrack.

In one scene, an engineer and her team decided to take on a challenge in Haiti where the children had to cross a river with strong current often to get to their school. Every year, there are several drownings. Due to extreme poverty, the river was considered unbridgeable for a long time. I was cheering at the screen and excited to see this bridge constructed with a fairly simple design!

https://dreambigfilm.com/stories/building-community-bridges-in-haiti/

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