© 2022 EPFL - Two EPFL students, Nour Ghalia Abassi and Mohamed Ali Dhraief, spent ten days in Ghana working on water-related projects. After a five-hour drive from Ghana's capital city Accra, Nour Ghalia Abassi and Mohamed Ali Dhraief finally reached Kumasi. Abassi, a PhD candidate in artificial intelligence, and Dhraief, a Master's student in data sciences, were there for the Network for Water and Life (NEWAL) program, sponsored by the swissuniversities SUDAC program. Nour Ghalia Abassi and Mohamed Ali Dhraief. EPFL - For a little over a week last February, 40 participants from Switzerland, Ghana, Liberia, Benin, Cameroon and Côte d'Ivoire gathered at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Kumasi, Ghana's second largest city, to create sustainable development projects. "When we arrived, we didn't know exactly what we were going to do," says Abassi. "Only that we needed to come up with an idea related to water." Abassi and Dhraief were the only EPFL students selected for the NEWAL program.
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