The second week of our trip to Payir consisted of us putting on two health evenings for the Thottiyapatti community, creating a promotional video for Payir, writing official reports on Payir’s solar panel project and annual report, distributing all supplies bought and establishing a phase-out plan for our club, which we would later discus with the founders Preethi and Senthil.

Today marks the last day of my stay in Moscow after an intense week of cold calls and meetings. If this project has taught me anything, it's that hard work can really pay off.

The humid air of the bridge between plane and airport confirmed that I wasn’t imagining things. Reality became more vivid with each leg of the journey – a car ride through a Managua evening, then the next day along a cobblestone highway to the village of Silvio Mayorga in Nicaragua, the site of the new Tufts Engineers without Borders project.