GLOBAL BRIGADES PUBLIC HEALTH UNB

Event Date: Apr 24, 2017 12:00 AM

Event Description:
Public Health's mission is to empower rural Honduran
communities to prevent common illnesses through in-home
infrastructural development, community leader training, and
health education. Working side-by-side with community
members, volunteers improve the overall infrastructure within
the home through the construction of five projects: eco-stoves,
latrines, water storage units, showers, and concrete floors.
The five projects were chosen based on observations of
medical brigade patient records, which illustrated high levels
of respiratory, chagas and other preventable diseases caused
by poor in-home health infrastructure, as well as student input
and observations. Between brigades the in-country team
provides follow-up to ensure the maintenance of the structures
and work to find funding that will complement the health goals
of the community to perpetuate future construction.