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Rosendin Sends Team to Rwanda to Build Bridge | EC&M

Rosendin, headquartered in San Jose, Calif., will celebrate its 100th year in the electrical contracting business with an international volunteer effort to build a footbridge in Rwanda, East Africa. Rosendin is teaming up with the nonprofit Bridges to Prosperity to design and build the suspension bridge in a mountainous farming region in the Muhanga District.

A team of six Rosendin and four Webcor employees traveled to Rwanda on Nov. 9, where they will spend two weeks building the 161-ft long suspension footbridge over the Miguramo River, a dangerous waterway that splits community resources and is impassible five months of the year. In the last year, two people have died and three were injured trying to step across logs placed across the river.

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