University of Maryland Baltimore County Environmental Brigade March 2017 Panama


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Volunteer Activity Description

Start Date: Mar 18, 2017 12:00 AM
End Date: Mar 24, 2017 12:00 AM

Global Brigades offers 7-day Environmental Brigades throughout the year in Panama. Environmental Brigades provide student volunteers with the opportunity to gain first-hand experience in environmental management and education by empowering community members in rural communities. During brigades, volunteers spend time with environmental committees to better understand the region's pressing environmental concerns and potential for improvement. Through interactive workshops and the implementation of physical projects, student volunteers provide the education and physical assistance necessary for these families to sustain long-term behavioral change, which will benefit the well-being of not only themselves but their surrounding environment as well. Subsequent brigades build on each other and therefore, projects are continued through successive phases year after year. Between brigades, our in-country team maintains relationships with our community leaders to ensure the continuation of projects started by brigades and to provide follow-up on community members’ feedback as well as next steps.

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volunteers needed to reach the Initiative Goal


Dhvani Patel

Passionate about: As a citizen of the world I hold much value in the idea of a community. The resources we use and extract are not ours alone, we share them with the rest of the world so we have a responsibility to be ... [Read More]

Gabriel Kuykendall

Passionate about: I am passionate about environmental sustainability!

Jasmine Sun

Passionate about: Hi everyone! My name is Jasmine and I chose to be an environmental science major because I felt that our planet needs us to change. Personally, I do anything that I can do to keep our planet healthy. ... [Read More]
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Activity details were updated 2942 days ago
Activity details were updated 2942 days ago
Jerry M Bodman donated $96 2946 days ago
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