Countries
Programs started here in 2008. Originally started with micro-enterprise but have since branched out into healthcare and human rights.
Hint: There is a large canal in this Central American country
What is Panama?
The first of the programs implemented in the communities. Some common features include patient consultations, teeth cleanings, house visits, and medicine distribution.
Hint: Two health related graduate schools
What are Medical and Dental?
Global Brigades’ commitment to empower 100 rural Central American communities to permanently rise out of global poverty through three core development components: healthcare; water, hygiene, and sanitation (WASH); and economic development
What is the Empowered 100?
Global Brigades was founded by Duffy Casey and Shital Chauhan, who led a group of university students from this Wisconsin University in 2003.
What is Marquette University?
Programs started here in 2013. Initiatives started with healthcare but have branched out into economic, clean water, and sanitation development.
Hint: Home of the infamous Dual Volcano
What is Nicaragua?
The three programs that deal with planning and building effective systems to deliver clean ____ to homes as well as inputting proper sanitation stations.
Hint: H2O; Mechanical, Electrical, Biomedical; MPH (masters in the science of preventing disease)
What are Water, Engineering, and Public Health?
A collection of 17 global goals set by the United Nations Development Programme. The formal name for the SDGs is: "Transforming our World: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development."
What are the UN Sustainable Development Goals?
This website is the primary platform used for registering and fundraising for the Global Brigades programs. It was founded in 2010.
What is Empowered.org?
Started here in 2010. Efforts were started in this African country to complement Global Brigades work in Central America
Hint: Ebola outbreak
What is Ghana?
Program focusing on financial and economic development. Also helps entrepreneurs start their own ____.
What is Business?
Implementing programming at all levels through a multi-disciplinary model. The involvement of all the Global Brigades programs together creates an empowered community.
What is the Holistic Model?
In 2013, within one year of the launch of the Sustainable transition model, Global Brigades completed its first community transition with El Zurzular, ______.
What is Honduras?
Started here in 2004. Global Brigades started its work here as a medical relief organization.
Hint: Flag has blue and white stripes with 5 stars in the middle to represent the 5 main Central American countries
What is Honduras?
Program which helps communities resolve disputes with the law and makes sure each person's basic _____ _____ are not violated
What is Human Rights/Legal Empowerment?
When all the health and economic development projects are sustainably taken over by the community, we no longer send brigades and our relationship evolves to one of follow-up and guidance. This community officially becomes known as an _____ _____.
What is an Empowered Community?
In 2015, Global Brigades launched its first social enterprise ______ in partnership with coffee growing communities in Central America with the goal to double and triple farmer income while producing gourmet coffee for students to fundraise with.
What is Cafe Holistico?