by Kelly Brantner | May 18, 2020 | Humanitarian, Social Entrepreneurship
This update is courtesy of Ms. Shantha Bloemen, Founder of Mobility for Africa. For the past decade, Cladys Mhlanga has been the nurse -in-charge with the IGAVA clinic. Her commitment to the community’s health and well-being seems boundless. Added to her usual...
by Katie McGowan | Nov 29, 2017 | BBS News, Humanitarian, Social Entrepreneurship, Volunteering, Youth
In February 2018, our team will be heading to Nepal for our very first BBS humanitarian trip! We will be taking a small team of incredible volunteers JUST LIKE YOU to work with our friends at Circus Kathmandu. Circus Kathmandu (CK) are a 12 person acrobatics troop...
by Katie McGowan | Aug 3, 2017 | BBS News, Education, Social Entrepreneurship
Recently the BBS team took extreme off road vehicles from our partners at Maltec and drove them all the way from Berlin to Afghanistan in search of the legendary Wakhi people. Making the 6,000km journey into the belly of the 14,000ft high Wakhan Corridor, this was not...
by Katie McGowan | May 8, 2017 | Social Entrepreneurship, Women's Advocacy
The BBS team found themselves in Medan, Indonesia this month to meet with the NGO Indonesia Women’s Heritage Cooperative – a microloan organisation working to bring rural women out of poverty. Founded in 2013, our team was eager to meet the hard working people...
by Katie McGowan | Apr 6, 2017 | Education, Social Entrepreneurship, Youth
Landing in Bangkok, our team recently touched down to spend a bit of time with our first BBS-sponsored NGO, the JUMP! Foundation. The JUMP! Foundation runs a wide variety of for-profit and not-for-profit experiential education programs for youth around the world....
