Global Brigades

Global Brigades is the world's largest student-led global health and sustainable development organization. The organization empowers university students and professionals that want to make a difference in the world through international skill-based volunteer opportunities to gain a unique resume-building opportunity by engaging in hands-on international work experience.

Global Brigades provides s...tudent volunteers the ability to work alongside professionals and to participate in international programs that empower and improve the quality of life of under-resourced communities in developing countries, while respecting local culture. Since 2005, more than 10,000 student volunteers from 350 university chapters in the U.S., Canada, U.K. and Ireland, have provided health and economic development solutions to more than 300,000 beneficiaries in Central America and Ghana, Africa.

Our nine main skill-based programs include Medical Brigades, Public Health Brigades, Dental Brigades, Water Brigades, Microfinance Brigades, Business Brigades, Architecture Brigades, Law Brigades,and Environment Brigades.

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/GlobalBrigades

Blog:
http://www.globalbrigades.org/blog/

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