Microfinance Brigades and 11 more!

Did you know there is a program that helps start Microfinancing within developing and underdeveloped countries? Microfinance Brigades (MFB) provides poverty-stricken communities in the developing world with the educational, financial, and organization resources necessary to sustainably drive their own economic development. MFB volunteers help the under resourced in remote villages build their own businesses, ensure against emergencies, and fund community projects. Their ultimate goal to to create a sustainable growing economy through entrepreneurial driven business. Partnering with other international organizations in microfinance, agriculture, MFB provides the financial backing 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. This grass-roots approach advances communities and encourages them away from dependence on outside aid and towards self-reliant sustainability. 

MFB is the sister organization of Global Business Brigades and a program of Global Brigades, Inc., the world's largest student-led global health and sustainable development organization. There are 12 different programs within the Global Brigades program. They include:

Medical Brigades

Business Brigades

Water Brigades 

Environmental Brigades

Law Brigades

Dental Brigades

Architecture Brigades

Public Health Brigades

For Professionals

Empower Partners

Dance Brigades

Microfinance Brigades

Information and photo credit http://www.globalbrigades.org/project/microfinance/about-us/