Gb info session_ppt_9_21_2010

GMB Information Session

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Global Brigades is the world’s largest student-led global health and sustainable development organization. As a secular, international nonprofit organization, we mobilize student volunteers and professionals to empower communities in developing countries with programs that improve quality of life while respecting local culture and improving the environment.

Between 2008 and 2009, more than 4,000 volunteers from 80 GB university chapters in the U.S., Canada, and U.K. traveled to provide health and economic development solutions to more than 50,000 beneficiaries through our teams in Panama and Honduras.

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Develops sustainable health initiatives and provides relief where there is limited access to healthcare. Each community receives a brigade every 3-4 months and between brigades our in-country team maintains relationships with the communities to provide follow-up and conducts community health worker trainings to empower local leaders to perpetuate a consistent level of healthcare.





Communities are selected by an extensive study based on need, access to medicine, and health system infrastructure.

Most communities are within only a few hours of student accommodations, so that daily travel for brigades is feasible and safe.

Global Brigades only works in communities where we have been invited and have strong relationships with community leaders.




Introduction to Global Medical Brigades


Each brigade visits 4 communities to operate primary care clinics and provideHealth education workshops.



Global Medical Brigades is incorporating the use of OpenMRS into its practices. Each medical brigade station will be equipped with a laptop and the OpenMRS software to enter patient information. The medical record is electronically transferred with the patient through the brigade stations. The records are ultimately stored for future patient visits and to monitor community health trends.



To perpetuate a system for sustainable health in our communities, Global Medical Brigades has created a new community health worker program. Through this separate 5-week long summer program, volunteers will receive an intensive training to select CHWs in one of our communities, train them with our lesson plan and equip the CHWs with the medical resources to provide care to their community between brigades.


Noon: Flight arrives in Tegucigalpa1:00pm: Transport to accommodations2:00pm: Lunch and settle into housing3:00pm: Meet & greet Honduran Team• Rules and expectations• Presentation on GB

4:00pm: Unpack/sort medicine6:00pm: Dinner8:00pm: Night time bonding



8:00am: Breakfast9:00am: Tour of Nuevo Paraiso• Play time with orphans• Soccer with Flor Azul

12:00pm: Lunch1:00pm: Medicine Packing• Packing pills and labeling

6:00pm: Dinner8:00pm: Night time bonding



7:00am: Breakfast8:00am: Travel to community• Setup medical clinic• Provide care to patients

12:00pm: Lunch1:00pm: Continue Medical Brigade4:00pm: Leave once all are cared for6:00pm: Dinner7:00pm: Post-brigade organizing• Flag medical records• Sort medicines• Hand-off patient records for

follow-up to MD’s



8:00am: Breakfast9:00am: Travel to Tegucigalpa• Visit artisan community• Souvenir shopping

12:00pm: Lunch4:00pm: Travel back to Nuevo Paraiso5:00pm: Free time6:00pm: Dinner7:00pm: Sponsorship program discussion8:00pm: FIESTA!




• Electricity, showers, and linens• Laundry and room cleaning• Private chefs prepare nutritious

food• Security on duty• Internet cafe




Included in program fee: • 7 days and 6 nights program• Accommodations and meals• In-country transportation• Spanish translators and

coordinators• Program sustainability

$700 & Airfare

~$650 In-Country Cost

Join the next Medical Brigade!Contact one of the following Washington University GB officers:

Chethan RaoPresidentEmail: [email protected]



Questions?


GDB Information SessionSeptember 21, 2010








Provides urgent and preventive dental services in communities with limited access to healthcare. Each of our community partners receives a brigade every 3 to 4 months where hundreds of patients are treated with fillings, cleanings and extractions, and are given dental hygiene workshops. Between brigades, our in-country team maintains relationships with the communities to provide follow-up to insure any dental procedures were successful.



80 % of population have no access to a dentist

90% of population have cavities

One dentist for every 45,000 people

Typical families have less than 3 gallons of water per day to use








Introduction to Global Dental Brigades


Each brigade visits 4 communities to operate dental clinics in conjunction with Medical Brigades’ primary care clinics.



Each dental clinic includes a cleaning station and surgical station.



Global Medical Brigades is incorporating the use of OpenMRS into its practices. Each medical and dental brigade station will be equipped with a laptop and the OpenMRS software to enter patient information. The medical record is electronically transferred with the patient through the brigade stations. The records are ultimately stored for future patient visits and to monitor community health trends.



To ensure that surgical operations were successful and that there are no post-op complications, our team of in-country dentists visit each community after brigades. One week after each brigade our dentists travel to each community to offer an open day of follow-up. After surgeries during the brigade, each patient is provided with the date of the follow-up visit.




Noon: Flight arrives in Tegucigalpa1:00pm: Transport to accommodations2:00pm: Lunch and settle into housing3:00pm: Orientation• Meet Honduran Team• Rules and expectations• Presentation on GB

4:00pm: Unpack/sort medicine6:00pm: Dinner8:00pm: Night time bonding

8:00am: Breakfast9:00am: Tour of Nuevo Paraiso• Play time with orphans• Soccer with Flor Azul

12:00pm: Lunch1:00pm: Medicine Packing• Packing pills and labeling






7:00am: Breakfast8:00am: Travel to community• Setup dental clinic• Provide care to patients

12:00pm: Lunch1:00pm: Continue Dental Brigade4:00pm: Leave once all are cared for6:00pm: Dinner7:00pm: Post-brigade organizing8:00pm: FIESTA on last day of brigades




12:00pm: Lunch4:00pm: Travel back to Nuevo Paraiso5:00pm: Free time6:00pm: Dinner7:00pm: Sponsorship program discussion








coordinators• Program sustainability

$750 + Airfare$850 + Airfare

Join the next Dental Brigade!

Contact the following WashU GDB Leader:

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Caryn RubanovichEmail:

[email protected]



Questions?


Microfinance Information SessionSeptember 21, 2010

Microfinance Brigades provides the educational, financial, and organizational resources needed to empower community leaders. Student volunteers receive training from internationally renowned microfinance institutions and then use this new knowledge to provide support to small farmers in need. At the end of the Brigade, students each grant a micro-loan to the community to provide a stepping stone for these farmers to escape the cycle of poverty and improve the quality of life for themselves and their families well into the future.

LOCATION


Typical family income is less than $2 per day

Average level of education is approximately 5th grade

Limited to no access to microfinance

High biodiversity areas at risk of environmental degradation

LOCATION

MFB has targeted community members in two specific communities: Francisco Morazán and El Paraiso. Both are remote communities in mountainous regions characterized by their vulnerability to drought and dependency on subsistence farming.


LOCATION

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• Formal and intensive MF administrative trainingo 3 days offsite/moduleo 1 module/month x 4 months

• Bi-monthly technical follow-up assistance

• Caja Rural exchanges

Step 1: Solidify community microfinance “caja rural” co-op banks

LOCATION


• Pajarilloso Installation of irrigation line to community (with GWB)o Caja Rural managed Plantain training farm

GB Operational loan and bi-monthly visits from EDA Agricultural Engineer

• Joyas del Carballoo Public Health Construction Projects (with GPHB)

Trained by PH team and funded with beneficiary collaborations, PH surplus, and other activities to continue, expand, and maintain PH projects

Step 2: Custom Capitalization Projects

VIDEO


12:00pm: Flight arrives in Honduras12:30pm: Transport to FINCA training center1:00pm: Lunch at FINCA center2:00pm: Transport to Picacho (tourist site)2:30pm: Picacho tour & MFB orientation5:00pm: Transport to FINCA center6:30pm: Dinner at FINCA center7:30pm: Team reflection and bonding

SCHEDULE


SCHEDULE


7:00am: Breakfast at FINCA center8:00am: FINCA workshop

o Intro to FINCA Internationalo Intro to Honduras MF Landscape

12:30pm: Lunch1:30pm: FINCA workshop continued

o FINCA HN Operationso Client training

4:00pm: Transport to Nuevo Paraiso6:00pm: Dinner at Nuevo Paraiso7:00pm: Team reflection and bonding

SCHEDULE


7:00am: Breakfast at Nuevo Paraiso8:00am: Transport to FINCA Branch office

o FINCA Borrow visits with loan officers

12:30pm: Lunch1:30pm: FUNDER workshop

o “Caja Rural” community co-op bank model as mechanisms for self-reliant development

4:00pm: Visit SAN Orphanage6:00pm: Dinner at Nuevo Paraiso7:00pm: Team reflection and bonding

SCHEDULE


7:00am: Breakfast at Nuevo Paraiso8:00am: Transport to communities9:30am: Cultural Exchange Activity12:30pm: Sandwich Lunch1:30pm: Meeting with the community bank

o SWOT Analysis and defining goals 3:30pm: Transport to Nuevo Paraiso6:00pm: Dinner at Nuevo Paraiso7:00pm: Team reflection and prep for community training

SCHEDULE


7:00am: Breakfast8:00am: Transport to communities9:30am: Individual Borrower visits/interviews12:00pm: Sandwich Lunch1:00pm: Community Action• Personal Finance Workshop

3:30pm: Transport to Nuevo Paraiso6:00pm: Dinner7:00pm: Team Reflection

SCHEDULE


7:00am: Breakfast8:00am: Transport to communities9:30am: Individual Borrower visits/consulting1:30pm: Transport to Valle de Angeles• Lunch, shopping, free-time

5:00pm: Transport to Nuevo Paraiso6:00pm: Dinner7:00pm: Community Investment Fund allocations8:00pm: Feedback Surveys9:00pm: Fiesta!

LODGING




PROGRAM FEE



coordinators• Program sustainability• Capital Investment Fund ($100)

$750 + Airfare

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Join the 2011 Microfinance Brigade!

Contact:

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Sasha YanPresident

Email: [email protected] Number: (805) 558-2359

PHB Information SessionSeptember 21, 2010








Empowers under resourced communities in the developing world to decrease life threatening diseases by improving home infrastructure and providing public health education. Working side-by-side with community members, PHB volunteers improve the overall infrastructure within the home through the construction of four projects: eco-stoves, latrines, water storage units and concrete floors.



70% do not have access to public sanitary services

Average family income is less than $1 per day

Typically no doctors within a 20 mile radius

Typical families have less than 3 gallons of water per day to use








Introduction to Public Health Brigades


Most brigades include construction of each of the following four public health projects: concrete floors, water pilas, latrines, and ecostoves.


Often homes in rural villages do not have a clean and secure place to store water. Water “pilas” allow for a convenient and sanitary storage unit saving families hundreds of hours per year walking long distances to a water source.

Many preventive diseases are caused by unsanitary and unorganized waste disposal. Latrines provide a convenient and inexpensive solution near the home.

Eco-stoves with chimneys limit the carbon and smoke that fills the home with harmful smoke and pollutants that cause many of the family’s respiratory illnesses. The eco-stoves also burn much more efficiently, limiting deforestation.


Along with the construction of public health projects, brigades also include education workshops.


Kid's health education is a dynamic mix of songs, games, and interactive activities designed to teach simple but highly effective health promotion and disease prevention methods, such as handwashing and dental care.

Adult and family health education first focuses on the importance, care, and maintenance of the construction projects and then secondly uses this as a jumping-off point to share other critical health concepts, such as treatment of potable drinking water.


To perpetuate the infrastructure projects, the Public Health (PH)Brigades directors in Honduras train identified community members to continue construction and maintenance between brigades. PH Brigades’ policy is to only do half of the homes in the community, with a predetermined agreement that the other community members will pay for and implement the construction of the other half.




Noon: Flight arrives in Tegucigalpa1:00pm: Transport to accommodations2:00pm: Lunch and settle into housing3:00pm: Orientation• Meet Honduran Team• Rules and expectations• Presentation on GB


8:00am: Breakfast9:00am: Meeting with community leaders12:00pm: Lunch1:00pm: Community surveys6:00pm: Dinner8:00pm: Prep for next day





7:00am: Breakfast8:00am: Travel to community• Begin construction • Children’s Education

12:00pm: Lunch1:00pm: Continue construction4:00pm: Return to accommodations6:00pm: Dinner7:00pm: Prep for following day8:00pm: FIESTA on last day of brigades




12:00pm: Lunch1: 00pm: Family education in the community4:00pm: Travel back to Nuevo Paraiso5:00pm: Free time6:00pm: Dinner7:00pm: Sponsorship program discussion







Included in program fee: • 7 days and 6 nights program• Accommodations and meals• In-country transportation• Coordinators• Program sustainability• Public Health project materials

($100)

$750 + Airfare



Join the next Public Health Brigade!

PHB officers:

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Jimmy MaEmail: [email protected]

Peter LamEmail: [email protected]

Anna ChoeEmail: [email protected]

David LamEmail: [email protected]

Varun ManoharaEmail: [email protected]

Questions?


Water Brigades Volunteers assist in designing and implementing water systems to prevent water related illnesses in communities with limited access to clean water.

With a sufficient quantity of properly treated water community members can cut off the connection between water and illness and ultimately live healthier more productive lives.

Volunteers work side-by-side with community members to construct the water system. Additionally Water Brigades and its volunteers provide education and training so that the community can properly administer, operate, and maintain their water system.

Dig that ditch Abhi!

We will be brigadeering for a week this March over Spring Break!

No technical skills required! All you need to bring is the willingness to work, a good attitude, and the love of clean water!

Join Our Happy Water Family!