Squads Abroad is a 501c3 non-profit organization under our parent company Global Brigades, a Platinum Level Guidestar member for Financial Transparency. Since 2004, our organization has collectively mobilized more than 70,000 international volunteers to help resolve global health and economic disparities around the world.
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Dr. Gema Tellez

Dr. Gema Tellez

Dr. Gema started working with Global Brigades in 2015 as an interpreter and in 2018 she started as medical doctor. She has been taking care of the health of numerous communities in Honduras and Guatemala, and during 2020 crisis she joined the HCPA Program to continue...
Grethel Zavala

Grethel Zavala

Grethel Zavala joined Global Brigades in 2022 as a Virtual Program Facilitator for WASH Programs. Grethel earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Civil Engineering from UNITEC and also has studies in City and Regional Planning and Project Management. Her professional experience...
Dr. Bryan Carias

Dr. Bryan Carias

Dr. Bryan is 36 years old, Honduran, and a general practitioner who graduated from the National Autonomous University of Honduras, and is currently studying for a master’s degree in public health and disaster epidemiology from the Erasmus program in the European...
Ylaska Tejeda

Ylaska Tejeda

Ylaska Tejeda began her Global Brigades journey in May of 2015 serving as a translator and eventually as a coordinator. She has an International Relations degree from The Catholic University of Honduras. While in Global Brigades, Ylaska partook in Water, Engineering,...
Vasti Gomez

Vasti Gomez

Vasti Gomez began her Global Brigades journey in 2020 serving as a medical lecturer in the Medical Virtual Program. Besides being a Global Brigades Family member, she also is a full-time doctor in the Honduran Social Security Institute, she is currently a Nursing and...