Dear Friends and Family,

Thank you for visiting my personal Global Business Brigades project page. I'd like to explain a little about the project I'm involved with, who I'll be helping in Panama, and how you can make a difference.

I am a member of Indiana University’s chapter of Global Brigades, the world’s largest student-led global health and sustainable development organization. Global Brigades is made up of nine skill-based programs which benefit more than 130,000 Honduran and Panamanian community members annually.

During this Spring Break, I will spend 8 days in a rural community in Panama. I will be personally teaching low income families how to become financially sustainable by teaching them personal financial and business skills. The average education in Panama is only a 6th grade education.

I'll give you an example of one type of project I could be working on. I can help farmers perform a cost/benefit analysis on which crop would be most profitable for him to grow in the upcoming season factoring in all input costs and the expected profits. Expected profit calculations and even multiplication and division are very difficult for the uneducated farmer and rural families.

I am really looking forward to volunteering and making a difference to this community and world during my Spring Break, but I cannot do it without the support from my friends and family. All contributions are sincerely appreciated and necessary to make this project possible.

Every step towards social change helps make a difference! If you are interested in making a donation to this project and helping me finance this trip, please click on the 'DONATE' button.

Thanks.