Global Brigades USA

  • About Global Brigades USA
    Global Brigades USA is the world's largest student-led global health and sustainable development organization. Our mission is to empower volunteers and under-resourced communities to resolve global health and economic disparities and inspire all involved to collaboratively work towards an equal world. Since 2005, more than 30,000 volunteers from 800 university groups have traveled to implement our nine skill-based programs to benefit more than 600,000 community members in Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, and Ghana.

CHAPTERS (18)

  1. Global Brigades USA
  2. Special Projects
  3. Chapters

Rewards Program

 Rewards Program is a chapter of Global Brigades, an international movement of students and medical professionals working alongside local communities and staff to implement sustainable health systems. We work in remote, rural, and under resourced communities in Honduras, Panama, Nicaragua and Ghana who would otherwise have limited to no access to health care. Each community receives a brigade every 3 to 4 months where hundreds of patients are provided access to healthcare and volunteers deliver public health workshops. Electronic patient records are collected for future visitations and to monitor overall community health trends. In conjunction with our Medical Program, Global Brigades also supports communities with economic development, 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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Medical Brigades at Vitamin Angels

 Vitamin Angels is a large donor to Global Brigades.

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Microenterprise Conference

Global Brigades works closely with volunteers from rural communities in Honduras to start, improve and maintain microenterprises. This December 4-9, Global Brigades will partner with business professionals to facilitate a Microenterprise Conference to provide community bank members with important information and tools. Current projects include chicken farms, tilapia farms, bakeries, agricultural stores and coffee farms. Business professionals will prepare presentations on various topics during the months leading up to the December conference. Once in Honduras, volunteers will visit communities, gain cultural context, become familiar with our current projects to make final alterations to their conference presentations. The conference will cover supply chain and operations, organizational structures, sales and margin analysis, cost-benefit analysis, and marketing and strategy. Please contact Eli LaSota, a Global Brigades Honduras Program Associate, with any questions by sending an email to eli.lasota@globalbrigades.org.

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Education Initiatives

 Promoting education in Global Brigades communities.

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Education Initiatives

 Promoting education in Global Brigades communities.

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Independent Research Projects

 This is a non-specific chapter of Global Brigades, under which is housed any independent research projects and initiatives conducted by volunteers on behalf of Global Brigades.

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Community Bank Empowerment Summit

 Help us fundraise for our annual Community Bank Empowerment Summit! This 3-day training summit brings the board of directors from each Global Brigades established community bank into Panama City to participate and collaborate in workshops, trainings, and more! The Business and Microfinance Programs are expanding in Panama and need your support to host this event for even more people than last year. A yearly summit is needed in order to highlight successes, provide in-depth training, and build upon the educational curriculum in order to continue to support and reinforce the program's motto of "financial inclusion."

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Quenching the Thirst - Support Rural Water Systems

 The Global Brigades Water Program provides rural Hondurans with access to a sufficient supply of potable water through the construction of centralized water systems.

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Global Brigades at University of Texas Austin - Chapter Support

 Global Brigades at University of Texas Austin, is a holistic campus supporting all 10 programs. Donate to GB at UT Austin to help support each program's initiative. The current programs are: Architecture, Business, Dental, Environmental, Human Rights, Medical, Microfinance, Public Health, Water and Engineering. By supporting our holistic model, we are able to sustainably support our community partners!

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Brigade exceptions

 Global Brigades USA is the world's largest student-led global health and sustainable development organization. Our mission is to empower volunteers to facilitate sustainable solutions in under resourced communities while fostering local cultures. Since 2005, more than 5,000 volunteers from 110 university groups have traveled to implement our nine skill-based programs to benefit more than 100,000 Honduran, Panamanian, Ghanaian, and Nicaraguan community members.

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