Michelle Naef

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My passion has always been to help make a difference in someone's life. Now, I have the opportunity to go to do something bigger than I could ever imagine! I'm being given a chance to go to Nicaragua and help build water systems to those who need it most. But, I need your help! It would be incredible if you can help donate towards my trip, which is less than a month away!

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Website: temple-university-water-brigades-chapter


Organization: Global Brigades USA
Program: Water Brigades

About Us

Temple University is a chapter of Global Water Brigades, an international movement of university students working alongside local communities and technicians to implement clean water systems in the developing world. Water systems are designed, planned, and budgeted with partner communities and local leaders are identified by the community to serve as the community’s Water Council, which collects monthly water fees from households to operate and maintain the constructed water system. It then takes several months of construction by volunteers, staff and community members to complete and can include several large scale components, such as dams and storage tanks in order to pipe clean water to individual homes. nnIn conjunction with our Water Program, Global Brigades also supports communities with healthcare, economic development and sanitation 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.