CHAPTER STATS
$89,888
FUNDRAISED
5
BRIGADES
90
VOLUNTEERS
RESOURCES
SPONSORS
Texas A&M University is a chapter of Global Legal Empowerment Brigades, an international movement of students and attorneys providing legal education and financial resources for vulnerable families to resolve legal challenges. We focus our work with women in remote, rural, and under-resourced communities who would otherwise have limited to no access to legal resources. Volunteers facilitate legal clinics with lawyers to provide pro-bono consulting and the financial resources for community members to help resolve cases. nnIn conjunction with our Legal Empowerment Program, Global Brigades also supports communities with healthcare, economic development, 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.
RECENT OR UPCOMING BRIGADES
COVID-19 Program Continuation Fund
May 05, 2020 - Dec 31, 2021
Donate funds toward sustaining programs during COVID-19. Your donations can still make the same impact as a brigade and more.
Texas A&M University Legal Empowerment Brigade January 2020 Panama
Jan 03, 2020 - Jan 09, 2020
Global Brigades offers 7-day Legal Empowerment Brigades throughout the year in Honduras. Legal Empowerment Brigades primarily work with rural communities that are under-resourced and largely unaware of their own legal rights. Throughout the week, Legal Empowerment Brigades volunteers shadow Honduran lawyers to provide pro-bono legal consulting to rural communities. A free legal clinic provides opportunities for volunteers to not only receive experience with Honduran legal professionals but also experience first-hand the obstacles to justice and the culture of legal misinformation in rural communities. Volunteers also work to provide capacity building and education-based workshops on various legal concepts to empower communities through education. Additionally, volunteers continue shadowing Honduran lawyers while they gather important information to initiate the process of resolving family legal cases, many of which have been stalled in the Honduran legal system through institutional inefficiencies and the prohibitive high costs of legal services. Between brigades, Global Brigades’ in-country staff works to secure legal outcomes and provide follow-up to the community.
Texas A&M University Legal Empowerment August 2019 Panama
Aug 13, 2019 - Aug 19, 2019
Global Brigades offers 7-day Legal Empowerment Brigades throughout the year in Panama and Honduras. Legal Empowerment Brigades primarily work with rural communities that are under-resourced and largely unaware of their own legal rights. Throughout the week, Legal Empowerment Brigades volunteers shadow Honduran/Panamanian lawyers to provide pro-bono legal consulting to rural communities. A free legal clinic provides opportunities for volunteers to not only receive experience with Honduran/Panamanian legal professionals but also experience first-hand the obstacles to justice and the culture of legal misinformation in rural communities. Volunteers also work to provide capacity building and education-based workshops on various legal concepts to empower communities through education. Additionally, volunteers continue shadowing Honduran/Panamanian lawyers while they gather important information to initiate the process of resolving family legal cases, many of which have been stalled in the Honduran/Panamanian legal system through institutional inefficiencies and the prohibitive high costs of legal services. Between brigades, Global Brigades’ in-country staff works to secure legal outcomes and provide follow-up to the community.
Texas A&M University Legal Empowerment Brigade January 2019 Honduras
Jan 03, 2019 - Jan 09, 2019
Global Brigades offers 7-day Legal Empowerment Brigades throughout the year in Honduras. Legal Empowerment Brigades primarily work with rural communities that are under-resourced and largely unaware of their own legal rights. Throughout the week, Legal Empowerment Brigades volunteers shadow Honduran lawyers to provide pro-bono legal consulting to rural communities. A free legal clinic provides opportunities for volunteers to not only receive experience with Honduran legal professionals but also experience first-hand the obstacles to justice and the culture of legal misinformation in rural communities. Volunteers also work to provide capacity building and education-based workshops on various legal concepts to empower communities through education. Additionally, volunteers continue shadowing Honduran lawyers while they gather important information to initiate the process of resolving family legal cases, many of which have been stalled in the Honduran legal system through institutional inefficiencies and the prohibitive high costs of legal services. Between brigades, Global Brigades’ in-country staff works to secure legal outcomes and provide follow-up to the community.
Chapter Contribution for 2018 Brigades
Jan 01, 2017 - Dec 31, 2017
Donate on behalf of this Global Human-rights Brigades chapter to meet their minimum $1,500 USD annual chapter contribution goal, so they can mobilize Human-rights Brigade volunteers for the Sep 2017- Oct 2018 Brigade Season.
Chapter Contribution for 2017 Brigades
Jan 01, 2016 - Dec 31, 2016
Donate on behalf of this Global Human-rights Brigades chapter to meet their minimum $1,500 USD annual chapter contribution goal, so they can mobilize Human-rights Brigade volunteers for the Sep 2016- Oct 2017 Brigade Season.
August 2011 Texas A&M Law Brigade
Aug 01, 2011 - Aug 08, 2011
Law Brigades volunteers provide pro-bono legal services to remote communities to foster economic development through small businesses in the communities. Additionally, they work to incorporate unregistered communities to empower them with rights and government benefits that they would not have received otherwise. Volunteers work side-by-side with Panamanian lawyers to assess community legal needs, develop solutions, and file the appropriate documents with the government.
Texas A&M Law Summer 2012 Panama
Jan 01, 1970 - Jan 01, 1970
Law Brigades at Texas A&M is a chapter of Global Brigades, the world\\\'s largest student-led global health and sustainable development organization. The Texas A&M chapter systematically works with more than 300 other university groups around the world to deliver and implement one of nine skill-based programs that benefit more than 130,000 Honduran and Panamanian community members annually. A one week Law Brigade provides volunteers the opportunity to get hands on legal experience working on cases with meaningful impact under licensed international lawyers. Examples of past projects include: business licensing, microenterprise legal support, and environmental degradation prevention.