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Addressing Humanitarian Challenges Access to Clean Water and Science Education

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In today’s world, access to clean water and quality education are fundamental humanitarian challenges. These challenges disproportionately affect rural populations. More than half of the United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)cannot be realized without eliminating water insecurity and enhancing education, especially in the sciences. Humanitarian organizations like Chemists Without Borders play a vital role …

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Thank you to Chemists Without Borders followers and supporters!

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Dear Subscribers to, Members of and Volunteers for Chemists Without Borders Thank you for your interest in and work for Chemists Without Borders and our mission of solving humanitarian problems by mobilizing the resources and expertise of the global chemistry community and its networks. You are part of that network, and CWB appreciates your contributions. …

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Science for Humanity

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“We’ve arranged a society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science and technology. And this combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces.” Carl Sagan Science is of little value if ordinary people cannot understand it, cannot trust it, or cannot …

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Hello, and welcome to the new Chemists Without Borders Website.

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Hello, and welcome to the new Chemists Without Borders Website. Please take some time and look around. Chemists Without Borders is dedicated to harnessing the skills and experiences within and adjacent to the global community of chemists and chemical industries to solve humanitarian problems. These include issues related to climate change, clean water and proper …

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1.7 million children die every year due to polluted environment: WHO

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1.7 million children die every year due to polluted environment: WHO Two World Health Organization (WHO) reports highlighted that children are exposed to harmful chemicals through food, water, air and products around them. Photo. Imagine what could be accomplished if a fraction of the 20 million of us in the global chemical enterprise (according to …

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University of Massachusetts has just published an excellent article on their project with Chemists Without Borders

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University of Massachusetts has just published an excellent article on their project with Chemists Without Borders on a low cost process they are developing to measure the concentration of arsenic in rice. When the process is fully developed, it will be transferred to a lab at the Asian University for Women in Chittagong, Bangladesh, and …

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Chemists Without Borders Receives Award from the American Chemical Society

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Congratulations to Chemists Without Borders for receiving an American Chemical Society P3 Award! The purpose of the Partners for Progress and Prosperity (P3) Award is to encourage and recognize successful and exemplary partnerships. These partnerships must result in impactful outcomes that improve the public perception and appreciation for chemistry, promote career advancement opportunities, support entrepreneurship …

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