This upcoming spring break (March 11 – 19, 2017), I will be traveling with Global Water Brigades from Arizona and to Nicaragua. Global Water Brigades is part of the world’s largest student-led health and sustainable development organization called Global Brigades. Each year Global Brigades mobilizes thousands of university students around the world to participate in 9 different skills-based programs to improve the quality of life in under-resourced communities.
In Nicaragua there are approximately 800,000 individuals that don’t have access to safe, clean water. On average over 200 children die each year to illnesses associated with dirty water. Our mission is to install a system that will provide these communities with clean water to reduce the occurrence of water-related diseases.
On my upcoming brigade, I will be working hand-in-hand with students, translators, and Nicaraguan community members. This will be the seventh Water Brigade led by students of The University of Arizona. In previous years, we installed sustainable water pipeline systems to deliver clean water to houses within a community. As a result of voluntary donations that directly supported our efforts, clean water was readily accessible to community members who previously had to travel miles to obtain unsanitary water. This trip will allow me to further broaden my perspective related to global engineering issues and global health issues. Without the help of Global Water Brigades many of the communities in Nicaragua will not have the means to escape water-related disease.
Please join me in supporting the work that I will be doing in the communities of Nicaragua. Any support you can give will make a tremendous difference. As a donor you will be contributing to the sustainability of the Global Water Brigades’ work in the communities we are working with. To make a donation please follow the following instructions:
Note: This site is completely secure and all donations are TAX-DEDUCTIBLE: Global Brigades is a certified 501 (C)3 NGO. After you make a donation, you will automatically be emailed a tax receipt.

1. Please go to http://www.empowered.org/Eli-Bieber my personal fundraising page. If it does not connect you to the page, enter the URL into the search bar exactly as it looks above.
2. Click the orange button on the right side that says “Donate”
3. Click “Make a donation on behalf of a volunteer” and select Eli Bieber from the drop down menu.
4. The page will take you to Google checkout or PayPal.
Please let me know if you have any questions about my trip, if you do you can email me back at elibieber@email.arizona.edu or you can call me at (310) 486-3898. I sincerely appreciate all of your support!