Global Brigades USA

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Indiana University is a chapter of Global Business Brigades, an international movement of university students and professionals building economic opportunities in the developing world. We work alongside promising entrepreneurs and experienced year-round staff to create financial opportunities in remote, rural, and under resourced areas of Honduras and Ghana. We work with communities to build community-owned banks to provide access to loans, savings accounts and financial literacy for community members. Volunteers assist in consulting micro-enterprises, assessing loan capacity payments and providing financial literacy workshops to families. In conjunction with our Business Program, Global Brigades also supports communities with healthcare, sanitation and clean water projects, and uniquely implements these programs in a holistic model to meet a community’s health and economic goals. Our model systematically builds community ownership and collaboratively executes programs with the end goal of sustainably evolving to a relationship of impact monitoring. To learn more, please visit www.globalbrigades.org.

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Indiana University is a chapter of Global Business Brigades, an international movement of university students and professionals building economic opportunities in the developing world. We work alongside promising entrepreneurs and experienced year-round staff to create financial opportunities in remote, rural, and under resourced areas of Honduras and Ghana. We work with communities to build community-owned banks to provide access to loans, savings accounts and financial literacy for community members. Volunteers assist in consulting micro-enterprises, assessing loan capacity payments and providing financial literacy workshops to families. In conjunction with our Business Program, Global Brigades also supports communities with healthcare, sanitation and clean water projects, and uniquely implements these programs in a holistic model to meet a community’s health and economic goals. Our model systematically builds community ownership and collaboratively executes programs with the end goal of sustainably evolving to a relationship of impact monitoring. To learn more, please visit www.globalbrigades.org.

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Charleston Medical Brigades

Medical Brigade volunteers have the opportunity to shadow licensed doctors in medical consultations and assist in a pharmacy under the direction of licensed pharmacists through a one week Medical Brigade in Honduras, Panama, or Ghana. Student volunteers can either join an existing Medical Brigades chapter on their campus or create their own chapter and recruit other volunteers. Each of our partner community receives a brigade every 3 to 4 months where hundreds of patients are treated and volunteers deliver public health workshops. Between brigades our in-country team maintains relationships with the communities to provide follow-up and to conduct Community Health Worker (CHW) trainings to empower local leaders to sustain a consistent level of healthcare.

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Community Art Exchange Residency

The Community Art Exchange Residency offers a unique opportunity that will facilitate a productive studio environment as well as structured volunteering time. Residents will lead art projects at a local school to empower rural Panamanian youth and their artistic aspirations. As a group, we will be living, working, and volunteering in the region of El Valle de Antón, Colcé, Panama.

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Community Health Workers Donations

Global Brigades sponsors the Community Health Workers program known as “Guardianes de Salud.” This program was created in 2009 to empower local community leaders to perpetuate a consistent level of healthcare and improve the access to medical services within rural communities. The program partners with communities in Honduras to provide intensive health worker training to selected volunteers. These Community Health Workers (CHWs) ensure that patients receive adequate follow-up between medical brigades and help to prevent potential health complications in the communities. These community leaders receive an intensive training course with a curriculum based on the well-known health promoter’s training books “Where There is No Doctor” and “Helping Health Workers Learn,” as well as supplemental information from the Honduras Ministry of Health. The CHWs are trained in health topics including first aid and wound care, the treatment of tropical diseases, STD transmission and prevention, family planning, and nutrition and hygiene. Our CHWs also learn how to track the health status of community members and teach fellow community members about preventive health measures. Their training includes the necessary tools and knowledge on how to give basic treatment for acute diseases, monitor children for proper nutrition and development, manage medication for chronically ill patients, and refer complicated cases to the next level of care. At the end of their training, the CHWs are recognized by the Honduras Ministry of Health as local health promoters. By educating local community volunteers, we are also promoting community leadership and empowerment, which has proven to be quite beneficial in the communities.

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Community Health Workers Externship

Global Brigades USA is the world's largest student-led global health and sustainable development organization. Our mission is to empower volunteers to facilitate sustainable solutions in under resourced communities while fostering local cultures. Since 2005, more than 5,000 volunteers from 110 university groups have traveled to implement our nine skill-based programs to benefit more than 100,000 Honduran and Panamanian community members.

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Constructing a Future: Support Honduran Rural Schools

This group is dedicated to fundraising and donating money that goes directly to buying materials such as cement, rebar, and concrete blocks to be used to construct schools in rural Honduras. The projects this money supports are the ongoing projects of Global Architecture Brigades.

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CSUEB Global Medical & Dental Brigades

Global Medical Brigades at California State University, East Bay is a discipline of Global Brigades, the world's largest student-led global health and sustainable development organization. The CSUEB chapter works with more than 300 university groups around the world to deliver and implement one of nine skill-based programs, benefiting more than 130,000 Central American community members annually. CSUEB Global Brigades has had over 100 students serve in Panama, Honduras, and Nicaragua.

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CU Boulder Public Health Brigades

Global Brigades USA is the world's largest student-led global health and sustainable development organization. Our mission is to empower volunteers to facilitate sustainable solutions in under resourced communities while fostering local cultures. Since 2005, more than 5,000 volunteers from 110 university groups have traveled to implement our nine skill-based programs to benefit more than 100,000 Honduran and Panamanian community members.

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