University of North Carolina Chapel Hill is a chapter of Global Legal Empowerment Brigades, an international year-round movement of students and local professionals. We work in Honduras and Greece where together, with local staff and international students, we empower local community members and secure access to basic human rights. In Honduras, we focus on supporting remote, rural, and under-resourced communities that have limited or no access to legal services. In Greece, our focus is on the students’ deep understanding and knowledge of the refugee context in Greece and Europe in general. This an amazing opportunity to prepare tomorrow’s human rights defenders! In conjunction with our Legal Empowerment Program, Global Brigades also supports communities with healthcare, economic development, and clean water and sanitation projects, and uniquely implements these programs in a holistic model to meet a community’s health and economic goals. Our model systematically builds community ownership and collaboratively executes programs with the end goal of sustainably evolving to a relationship of impact monitoring. To learn more, please visit www.globalbrigades.org.

Brigade Leaders

Brenna Leahy

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