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Santa Clarita News

Salutatorian of the Saugus High School 2022 graduating class, Shelby Negosian was awarded the inaugural Arthur L. Littleworth Diversity Scholarship for her interest and experience in water policy.

05/20/2022

“Global Brigades is an international student-led movement that strives to implement holistic models around the globe,” Negosian said on her website. “In our Telebrigade, we engineered a pipeline for water in Cerro De Agua, a region in Jinotega, Nicaragua that lacked infrastructure for water.”

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Times News Online

Tamaqua woman to participate in service trip to Panama

04/28/2022

A Tamaqua woman who is a senior at Villanova University will travel to Panama next month to provide health care services to underprivileged areas.

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LSU Reveille

LSU Water Brigades repairs water system for indigenous group in Panama

04/12/2022

The LSU chapter of the Global Water Brigades traveled to Panama from March 13 to March 19 to repair a water system for a rural indigenous community in Embera Puru in the Darjen region. This trip was part of a larger effort the Global Brigades is making to assist this impoverished area.

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Volunteer International

The Unexpected Benefits of Volunteering for an NGO

04/06/2022

Have you ever considered volunteering? Whether it’s for a church, school, or another place, many organizations benefit from (and in some cases, completely depend on) volunteers to help. Volunteers also benefit from donating their time and effort to a cause they support: they gain a better understanding of the situation and culture surrounding the cause –– especially if it’s a volunteer program abroad. If you volunteer in a country where another language is spoken, you’ll also probably start to pick it up and actually learn it!

 

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Pacific Lutheran University News

David Yun ’22 discusses preparing for medical school and founding the Global Medical Brigades Club

03/29/2022

Global Medical Brigades is an international movement of students and medical professionals working alongside local communities and staff to implement sustainable health systems. The PLU chapter is a student-run organization that strives to promote global health equality and connects students with opportunities to travel internationally to provide assistance through clinics and public health activities. The PLU chapter also functions as a support and resource network for pre-med students and connects students with alumni doctors and medical students.

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Daily Free Press

After two years of cancellations, BU Global Medical Brigades is ready to head to Guatemala

03/18/2022

Boston University Global Medical Brigades chapter is gearing up for a trip to Guatemala this May — its first in-person brigade in over two years — following a series of cancellations caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Duke Trinity College of Arts and Sciences

What MMS Students Learned While Helping Businesses in Rural Panama

02/10/2022

What if the words you use every day in your business with clients do not translate perfectly into other languages?

This is one of the international business consulting challenges that Martha Reeves’ capstone course experienced this past semester as they worked with Global Brigades Panama. They held remote meetings with clients in rural locations and communicated solely through translators as they gained valuable lessons and experiences they will take with them into their future careers.

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KFOX14

EPCC graduate, NMSU student takes part in humanitarian effort

02/22/2022

Oscar Ruben Velasquez, an alum from El Paso Community College, fundraised along with other students from New Mexico State University to travel to Guatemala through an organization called NMSU Global Brigades, a chapter designed to gather up students interested in medicine and send them to underdeveloped countries to experience medicine abroad.

“NMSU Global Brigades which allows students to travel to foreign countries and underdeveloped communities to provide medical care. Recently we went to Guatemala and provided medical care for the community members,” Velasquez said.

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Old Dominion University

Biomedical Student Goes Global in Honduras

11/09/2021

Biomedical Sciences major Bethlehem Dawit is on the pre-health track at Old Dominion University. This past summer she and 14 other ODU students traveled to Honduras as part of Global Medical Brigades, a non-profit on-campus organization whose mission is to provide primary health care services to small, under-resourced, rural communities with limited to no access to medical care. Dawit serves as president of ODU’s chapter.

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College Media Network

Changing Lives with Global Medical Brigades

University of Florida pre-med student Michael Saba will never forget the smile shot his way by a little boy in Panama during his time there with Global Medical Brigades. Saba is one of the 83,000-plus students from 500-plus schools involved in Global Brigades, the largest student-funded humanitarian organization in the world, according to a recent press release.

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