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𝐔𝐓 𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐝𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐂𝐚𝐥𝐚𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐫𝐞𝐟𝐮𝐠𝐞𝐞𝐬 Cars packed with tents, shoes, and canned food, heading to northern France. That is how a group of 𝐇𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐄𝐧𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 students from the UT spent their time recently, delivering donations to refugees living in makeshift camps on the outskirts of Calais. Student Annik Riise was one of them. She helped prepare thousands of hot meals, chopped firewood and spent time with people living in conditions that are hard to imagine from a distance. Camps with no permanent shelter. Police raids sometimes every other day. And yet people holding on, finding ways to get through the day. Humanitarian Engineering trains students to work in exactly these kinds of settings. Not just with technical knowledge, but by actually listening to what people need and working alongside them. The Calais trip was designed to bring that to life outside the classroom. Annik put it simply: there is a real difference between hearing about something, knowing about it, and actually feeling it. Read the full story here https://lnkd.in/e5mBSBgb More information about the Master’s in Humanitarian Engineering https://lnkd.in/dutaYPth #utwente