Microfinance Brigades provides poverty-stricken communities in the developing world with the educational, financial, and organizational resources necessary to sustainably drive their own economic development. Microfinance Brigades volunteers help the under resourced in remote villages build their own businesses, ensure against emergencies, and fund community projects. By partnering with other international organizations in microfinance and agriculture, Microfinance Brigades provides the financial backing and technical support to create and strengthen independent community banks. As mechanisms for social and economic change, these banks are then empowered to perpetuate other community projects facilitated by Global Brigades volunteers. |
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This year marks our first Microfinance brigade; thus, it will be a work-in-progress.