This past January during winter break,? I had the opportunity to travel to Panama with the Texas A&M organization, Global Business Brigades. We flew from Houston into Panama City, then we drove about 3 hours to a small village outside of the country’s capital. This trip gave us brigaders an opportunity to use the skills and lessons that we learned in our classes to help the local businesses of the Panamanian villagers.
All of us were separated into 3 groups, with my group focusing on helping a local furniture business. My group and I were able to use principles that we had learned in our finance, marketing, and accounting classes to help our client improve his business. This was such an amazing experience and I feel that every brigader on this trip left feeling that they had actually made a positive impact on their client’s livelihood.