About Us
Global Brigades is an international non-profit that employs a holistic model to meet the health and economic objectives of communities. Through our model, we foster community ownership and collaborative program execution, working towards sustainable impact monitoring. Local communities and staff work together with international students and medical professionals to implement sustainable health systems. We work in remote, rural, and under resourced communities. This year, our brigade location is Honduras.
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Our Values
Empowerment
Creating an infrastructure that propels passion to meaningful results
Scalability
Perpetuating positive impact
Financial Transparency
Demonstrating efficient resource usage
Holistic Approach
​Implementing programming at all levels through a multi-disciplinary model
Sustainability
Creating replicable systems that maximize impact
Collaboration
Facilitating a “partnership” approach that makes any act of “service” empowering
Our Chapters
Global Brigades McGill has 5 chapters: medical, dental, business, public health and engineering, each with their own objectives to build sustainable solutions to meet a community’s health and economic goals. The current active chapters are medical, dental and engineering
Each community receives a brigade every 3 to 4 months where hundreds of patients are provided access to healthcare and volunteers deliver public health workshops. Electronic patient records are collected for future visitations and to monitor overall community health trends.
We work with communities to build community-owned banks to provide access to loans, savings accounts and financial literacy for community members. Volunteers assist in consulting micro-enterprises, assessing loan capacity payments and providing financial literacy workshops to families.
Volunteers work with local masons and families to build eco-stoves, latrines, concrete floors, showers, and/or water storage units. To ensure long-term sustainability and maintenance, the Public Health program team trains and empowers local community leaders in the formation of a Basic Sanitation Committee. The Basic Sanitation Committee is responsible for carrying out in-home assessments and monitoring the status of the projects.
Each community receives a brigade every 3 to 4 months where hundreds of patients are provided access to dental & medical care and volunteers deliver public health workshops. Electronic patient records are collected for future visitations and to monitor overall community health trends.
Water systems are designed, planned, budgeted with partner communities and local leaders are identified by the community to serve as the community’s Water Council, which collects monthly water fees from households to operate and maintain the constructed water system. It then takes several months of construction by volunteers, staff and community members to complete and can include several large scale components, such as dams and storage tanks in order to pipe clean water to individual homes.