Global Brigades in Canada

Architecture Brigades at Mount Allison University

Architecture Brigades at Mount Allison is a chapter of Global Brigades, the world's largest student-led global health and sustainable development organization. The chapter, which is comprised of students of Mount Allison , systematically works with more than 300 other university groups around the world to deliver and implement one of nine skill-based programs that benefit more than 130,000 Honduran and Panamanian community members annually. Architecture Brigades, a program within Global Brigades, designs and constructs socially responsible and sustainable architecture solutions in developing nations. A think tank design approach that utilizes extensive community dialogue and independent research to create efficient, appropriate, and elegant structures to be embraced and utilized by those for whom they were built.

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Business Brigades at Mount Allison University

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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Business Brigades at Mount Allison University

Volunteers on a Microfinance Brigade spend seven days in a rural community of Honduras. Prior to the brigade, GB staff trains community leaders who act as the executive board members of the community bank called the Caja Rural. Throughout the brigade, volunteers divide into groups where they visit several families in their homes. During the community visits, volunteers develop an understanding of the families’ ways of life, aspirations, and financial literacy. Following the visits, the students hold a community meeting about the Caja Rural focused on topics such as budgeting, savings incentives programs, and loans. At the end of week, students determine how they will allocate their CIF(community investment fund), whether it may be to an individual family or a lump sum donated to the Caja. One of the major advantages of the GB microfinance model is that the Cajas Rurales are entirely owned and operated by the communities. Therefore, all of the community members have the opportunity to benefit collectively, and the students work directly with individuals empowering them to become more financially stable and establish economic growth within their communities.

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Business Brigades at the University of Calgary

Global Business Brigades (GBB) provides business consulting and strategic investment to support under resourced microenterprises in developing countries. Our current focus is in remote and rural communities in Panama where we partner with other local development organizations to assess, implement and monitor sustainable development projects in 15 partner communities. The business brigade volunteers serve as a catalyst to the development projects, providing consulting methodologies, financial workshops and “capital investment,” a monetary donation to the project to improve profitability or social impact. Between brigades our in-country team maintains relationships with the partner organizations and communities to provide follow-up and measure outcomes.

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Business Test Chapter For Receipt

GLOBAL BRIGADES EVENTS 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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Dalhousie Public Health Brigades Panama

Public Health Brigade volunteers empower under resourced communities in the developing world to decrease life threatening diseases by improving home infrastructure and providing public health education through a 7 day Public Health Brigade in Honduras and Panama. Student volunteers can either join an existing Public Health Brigades chapter on their campus or create their own chapter and recruit other volunteers. Working side-by-side with community members, volunteers improve the overall infrastructure within the home.

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Dental Brigades at Memorial University of Newfoundland

In conjunction with, Medical Brigades, we travel to Central America to establish mobile dental clinics. Each of our community partners receives a brigade every 3-4 months where hundreds of patients are treated primarily with prophylactic cleaning, fluoride treatment and extractions, with hopes of launching full-fledged restorative care. GDB also focuses on prevention with dental hygiene workshops. Between brigades, our in-country team maintains relationships with the communities to provide follow-up to ensure any dental procedures were successful and to conduct community health worker trainings to empower local leaders to perpetuate a consistent level of dental care.

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Dental Brigades at Mount Allison University

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Dental Brigades at New Brunswick

Global Brigades is the world’s largest student-led global health and sustainable development organization. Since 2004, Global Brigades international affiliates have mobilized thousands of university students and professionals through nine skill-based service programs to improve quality of life in under resourced communities.

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Dental Brigades at Oulton College

Global Brigades is the world’s largest student-led global health and sustainable development organization. Since 2004, Global Brigades international affiliates have mobilized thousands of university students and professionals through nine skill-based service programs to improve quality of life in under resourced communities.

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