Our Mission:
Water Brigades' mission is to empower communities to access sufficient clean water through infrastructural development, water treatment, community leader training, and education.
What We Do:
Water Brigades Volunteers assist in designing and implementing water systems to prevent water related illnesses in communities with limited access to clean water. Volunteers assist in digging trenches, connecting pipes, installing in-home water faucets, and providing education to improve family health.
Why We Do It:
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. Once planning and design is complete, 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. This ensures sustainability of the community’s system as well as to improve sanitation and hygiene practices. With a holistic approach to development we plan to continue working with communities to improve their health and standard of living through the most fundamental resource on the planet, water.
Brigade Length & Logistics:
The Water Brigade is for 7 days in Honduras. Upon arrival in Honduras, Global Brigades staff picks up students from the airport and transport students to a safe and secure lodging facility where they will be lodged throughout the duration of the brigade. Each day volunteers and staff commute to and from the community to work on the water system or put on workshops. All meals, in-country transportation, coordinators, translators, and supplies are provided during the brigade.
This year's brigade will be TBD in TBD.
Program Fee: TBD
Airfare: ~ TBD (varies year to year)
Total: TBD
What is the program fee used for?
Global Brigades’ operations are 100% derived from volunteer contributions. The work of the local staff and our systematic approach to perpetuating volunteers’ projects between brigades allows Global Brigades to be a recognized sustainable development organization. Therefore, Global Brigades asks volunteers to contribute between 750-950 USD per volunteer (not including airfare) to support our programs. About 60% of each volunteer’s contribution is used to pay for brigade-related expenses such as food and housing for volunteers and staff, transportation to the communities, and brigade specific expenses. Water's brigade specific expenses include staffing technicians and building supplies. Approximately 35% of your contribution will go toward program sustainability. There are a number of local Global Brigades team members that work behind the scenes: local technicians and staff that mobilize community leaders prior to brigades, conduct capacity building with community members between brigades, and ultimately perpetuate the follow-up long after there is a need for brigades in a community. Ultimately, this means creating longer-term partnerships with the community with the ultimate goal of sustainably exiting the community with brigades by leaving an infrastructure of community-led committees and locally hired technicians to perpetuate projects.
Worried About Getting Those Funds?
No worries! Here at Pitt we offer several opportunities to raise club and personal funds that will go towards students’ $780 program contribution and the approximately $750 airfare fee. We will be fundraising to offer scholarships that the members of the brigade can apply for. Additionally, we will provide many opportunities and support for personal fundraising.
How can I become involved?
The first thing to do is attend Global Brigades general body meetings. These meetings are essential to understanding the holistic model of Global Brigades and seeing how all brigades fit together in our overarching goal of improving the health and lives of individuals in Ghana, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama. Next, come to specific Water Brigade meetings and events or talk to a board member about what the Water Brigade is like. Finally, immerse yourself into our Pitt Global Brigades family. This can be done in a variety of ways: volunteer with us, join a committee, watch a documentary screening, attend a social event, check out one of our other brigades (Business, Engineering, Human Rights, Microfinance, Medical, Public Health, Water), and talk to our board members. Together, we can make a difference. Join the movement today.
Questions?
Feel free to contact us with any questions, comments, or concerns at [email protected]
Water Brigades' mission is to empower communities to access sufficient clean water through infrastructural development, water treatment, community leader training, and education.
What We Do:
Water Brigades Volunteers assist in designing and implementing water systems to prevent water related illnesses in communities with limited access to clean water. Volunteers assist in digging trenches, connecting pipes, installing in-home water faucets, and providing education to improve family health.
Why We Do It:
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. Once planning and design is complete, 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. This ensures sustainability of the community’s system as well as to improve sanitation and hygiene practices. With a holistic approach to development we plan to continue working with communities to improve their health and standard of living through the most fundamental resource on the planet, water.
Brigade Length & Logistics:
The Water Brigade is for 7 days in Honduras. Upon arrival in Honduras, Global Brigades staff picks up students from the airport and transport students to a safe and secure lodging facility where they will be lodged throughout the duration of the brigade. Each day volunteers and staff commute to and from the community to work on the water system or put on workshops. All meals, in-country transportation, coordinators, translators, and supplies are provided during the brigade.
This year's brigade will be TBD in TBD.
Program Fee: TBD
Airfare: ~ TBD (varies year to year)
Total: TBD
What is the program fee used for?
Global Brigades’ operations are 100% derived from volunteer contributions. The work of the local staff and our systematic approach to perpetuating volunteers’ projects between brigades allows Global Brigades to be a recognized sustainable development organization. Therefore, Global Brigades asks volunteers to contribute between 750-950 USD per volunteer (not including airfare) to support our programs. About 60% of each volunteer’s contribution is used to pay for brigade-related expenses such as food and housing for volunteers and staff, transportation to the communities, and brigade specific expenses. Water's brigade specific expenses include staffing technicians and building supplies. Approximately 35% of your contribution will go toward program sustainability. There are a number of local Global Brigades team members that work behind the scenes: local technicians and staff that mobilize community leaders prior to brigades, conduct capacity building with community members between brigades, and ultimately perpetuate the follow-up long after there is a need for brigades in a community. Ultimately, this means creating longer-term partnerships with the community with the ultimate goal of sustainably exiting the community with brigades by leaving an infrastructure of community-led committees and locally hired technicians to perpetuate projects.
Worried About Getting Those Funds?
No worries! Here at Pitt we offer several opportunities to raise club and personal funds that will go towards students’ $780 program contribution and the approximately $750 airfare fee. We will be fundraising to offer scholarships that the members of the brigade can apply for. Additionally, we will provide many opportunities and support for personal fundraising.
How can I become involved?
The first thing to do is attend Global Brigades general body meetings. These meetings are essential to understanding the holistic model of Global Brigades and seeing how all brigades fit together in our overarching goal of improving the health and lives of individuals in Ghana, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama. Next, come to specific Water Brigade meetings and events or talk to a board member about what the Water Brigade is like. Finally, immerse yourself into our Pitt Global Brigades family. This can be done in a variety of ways: volunteer with us, join a committee, watch a documentary screening, attend a social event, check out one of our other brigades (Business, Engineering, Human Rights, Microfinance, Medical, Public Health, Water), and talk to our board members. Together, we can make a difference. Join the movement today.
Questions?
Feel free to contact us with any questions, comments, or concerns at [email protected]
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