Everyone deserves an equal chance to grow and develop. That is why I will volunteer with 2018 Warwick Business Brigade, part of Global Brigades, and I will travel to Nicaragua for 7 days to contribute to the development and growth of impoverished rural communities.

How exactly are we going to help those communities?

Several Brigades, teams of volunteers, travel to the same place in order to provide a sustainable and well-rounded project.

Business Brigades volunteers empower rural communities without access to financial services and business guidance by providing micro-enterprise counseling, financial planning assistance, and strategic investment. During the brigade, volunteers divide into small groups to conduct client visits in which they get to know the client and assess each client’s level of financial competency, entrepreneurial aspirations, and/or business knowledge. Volunteers then provide educational and capacity building assistance in the form of workshops. Topics range from personal finance to basic accounting and business planning.

Together with the Engineering Brigade, which helps the community gain access to clean water and resources, Human Rights Brigade, which helps the people from the community deal with legal problems, and also with the Medical team, which helps the community stay healthy, we all unite for a common goal: healing the world by helping people in need.