GLOBAL BRIGADES USA

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Water Brigades at UC Riverside

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Water Brigades at UC Riverside is one of the 6 disciplines of Global Brigades currently on the UCR campus. Global Brigades is the world's largest student-led global health and sustainable development organization. The UCR Water Brigades chapter 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, Panamanian, and Ghanaian community members annually.

When we're not creating water systems in Honduras, during and after school we try to promote GWB's message in the need for clean, sanitized water world wide. We have weekly meetings each quarter to train for our summer trip and discuss the importance of water in all aspects. We also volunteer in our local community in order to adequately prepare ourselves for the trip. We understand that in order to help communities abroad, it has to start in our own backyard.

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University of California Riverside Water Brigade June 2017 Honduras

Volunteer Activity Description

Global Brigades offers 7-day Water Brigades throughout the year in Honduras. Water Brigades' mission is to empower communities to access sufficient clean water through infrastructural development, water treatment, community leader training and education. Water Brigades volunteers assist in implementing clean water systems to prevent water-related illnesses in communities with limited access to clean water. One of the fundamental roadblocks to community development is lack of clean water. With a sufficient quantity of properly treated water, community members can cut off the connection between water and illness and ultimately live healthier, more productive lives. Volunteers work side-by-side with community members as well as with our in-country project technicians in all aspects of the water system's construction while learning about its design, functionality, and long-term sustainability.

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