Global Brigades USA

SOS GLOBAL FUND at Georgetown University

Microfinance Brigade volunteers work with community bank loan officers to consult potential borrowers on improving financial sustainability through a 7 day Microfinance Brigade in Honduras. Student volunteers can either join an existing Microfinance Brigades chapter on their campus or create their own chapter and recruit other volunteers. Volunteers provide rural communities with the educational, financial, and organizational resources necessary to sustainably drive their own economic development. By partnering with other international organizations in microfinance, Microfinance Brigades provides the financial backing and technical support to create and strengthen independent community banks.

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Special Receipt

Global Brigades is the world’s largest student-led health and sustainable development organization with varied membership that spans North American and European universities. Through Global Brigades, student and professional volunteers empower communities in developing countries with sustainable solutions that improve quality of life and environment, while respecting local culture. Since 2004, more than 30,000 volunteers from over 800 university clubs have traveled to provide health and economic development solutions to more than 600,000 beneficiaries in Honduras, Panama and Nicaragua.

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Student Health Workers Medical/Dental 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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Student Leadership Conferences

This is your chance to meet the Global Brigades Leadership team and network with other university leaders from all over the country. Throughout the weekend, you will participate in group discussions and breakout sessions, giving you the opportunity to share best-practices. You will also be learning about exciting Global Brigades updates that have happened over the last year! You will leave with more resources, tools and ideas to make your club stronger and your brigades more successful! This will also be an opportunity for you to share you ideas and thoughts about GB!

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Sustainable Development Brigades at University of New South Wales

Global Brigades 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, Panamanian, Nicaraguan, and Ghanaian community members.

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Sustainable Exit Fund

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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Sustainable Exit Fund Ghana Water

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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Sustainable Exit Fund- Water Ghana 2013

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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Sustainable Transition Fund

The Sustainable Transition Funds will be used for two related initiatives that help accelerate Global Brigades' ability to transition its relationship with community partners from doing brigades to one of follow-up and consulting with local technicians. 1) Clean Water: Local Water Brigades teams work with government municipalities and community leaders to build full-scale clean water projects in communities. In Honduras, they will be building wells in communities where our traditional gravity systems will not work. In Ghana, they will be expanding the government's current piped system into communities it does not have the resources to access. Panama does not currently invest in clean water projects because of evidence that the local government will be gradually providing water on it's own accord. Since Nicaraguan operations just started, we are still just assessing patient data and strengthening community relationships to identify the best way to solve water challenges. In Honduras, for every $100, approximately one family will receive access to clean water piped into their home. 2) Microfinance (Community Bank Capitalization): This initiative infuses money in the community-owned "banks" that our Microfinance teams help establish and provide follow-up on. Once the funds are in the community, bank leaders issue loans to families for a variety of meaningful purposes, including: replicating public health infrastructure projects such as latrines and eco-stoves, education, health emergencies, and growing the businesses. All four countries have the capacity to strategically receive these funds. 100% of these donations will go directly into these community projects without a dollar going to overhead.

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Syracuse Global Medical Brigades

Medical Brigades at Syracuse University is directly part of the world's largest student-led global sustainable health and development movement. The Syracuse chapter systematically works with more than 400 other university groups around the world to deliver and implement one of nine skill-based programs that benefit more than 130,000 Honduran Ghanaian, Nicaraguan, and Panamanian community members annually. Global Medical Brigades develops sustainable health initiatives and provides relief where there is limited access to healthcare. Each community receives a brigade every 3 to 4 months where hundreds of patients are treated and volunteers deliver public health workshops. Electronic patient records are collected for future visitations and to monitor overall community health trends.

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