GLOBAL BRIGADES BLOG

Video Contest: We Want to See The Most Creative Ways to Mobilize on Campus Global Brigades wants to learn your unique/creative way of recruiting others to join or support your brigade. How do you attract attention to your Global Brigades chapter on campus? Through a 2-5 minute video or animation, share with us your unique [...]

Video Contest: We Want to See The Most Creative Ways to Mobilize on Campus Global Brigades wants to learn your unique/creative way of recruiting others to join or support your brigade.  How do you attract attention to your Global Brigades chapter on campus? Through a 2-5 minute video or animation, share with us your unique [...]

Global Water Brigades Director, Ben Erker, had an essay published by the US Center for Citizen Diplomacy on their website.  Read Ben’s personal story about his work helping to bring clean water to communities in Honduras, and read other stories about the work being done by average citizens across the world to create goodwill among [...]

Our official Dental Pilot is wrapping up and it was a huge success! We worked with 31 medical brigade teams December 2009 through July 2010. Students worked alongside Honduran dentists and assisted with extractions, fillings, post-op instructions, sterilizing tools, and offering hands-on education and preventative fluoride treatments to patients in remote villages in Honduras. Dental [...]

How can a small loan change a life? The USC Microfinance Brigade & the community bank in El Junco recently helped a young woman realize her dream of a college education. Marta Medina Robero was looking to provide her daughter with the schooling she needed to become a teacher, a profession few women in the [...]

Global Brigades is thrilled to announce the launch of our new Facebook page: www.facebook.com/GlobalBrigades In our effort to consolidate our Facebook presence we are deleting the “Global Brigades U.S.A.”, “Global Brigades Europe”, and “Global Brigades Canada” pages to create one easy to find Facebook page where everyone worldwide can connect and share resources. The GB [...]

During the month of May, groups from UC Riverside and UC Davis conducted a medical brigade in the community of Jalaca, Talanga in Honduras.  During the brigade, students were approached by a young woman who asked them to please visit her grandmother at home since the grandmother could not walk and visit the clinic herself. [...]

Curious to find out what really happens on a Brigade? This new video from Northwestern University Global Water Brigades has tons of images to give you an insider look at the communities we partner with and the type of projects you can work on.  Check out more videos from Northwestern University from this past March [...]

Solar technology in the communities where we work is not a foreign concept. In fact, this past week, Public Health Brigades had the incredible opportunity to partner with Developing World Solar, an NGO from Hawaii that has specifically designed projects in the effort of combating the common environmental issues specific to rural areas in developing [...]

Over the past two years, the Global Brigades leadership team has been working on a new web-based initiative to take our social movement to the next level.  Today, we are pleased to introduce to you brigades.org, a dynamic online platform that will enable our volunteers, and volunteers from other global service organizations, to connect and [...]