Greece
Sample Schedule
Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 | Day 6 | Day 7 | ||
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8:00am | Airport Pick up and Transport to Lodging Facility | Breakfast | Breakfast | Breakfast | Breakfast | Breakfast | Breakfast | |
9:00am | Business Program Introduction & Safety Debrief | Transport to Athens | Transport to Athens | Transport to Athens | Transport to Athens | Departure:
Transport to Airport & Airline Check In |
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10:00am | Guest Talks Introduction to EU/Greek Business Environment, Selected Refugee Community | Group Workshop I: Idea Generation and Business Modeling | Group Workshop II: Marketing, Advertising, and Promotion | Group Workshop III: Financial Analysis (Return on Investment and Financial Statements) | ||||
11:00am | ||||||||
12:00am | ||||||||
1:00pm | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch | |||
2:00pm | Transport to Athens | Client Meeting II: SWOT Analysis and Business Plan | Client Meeting III: Business strategy and financial analysis of potential investments | Client Meeting IV: Deliverable Feedback | Client Meeting V: Deliverables Presentation to Client | |||
3:00pm | Business Client Meeting 1: Introduction | |||||||
4:00pm | ||||||||
5:00pm | Settling in & Free Time | Transport to Lodging Facility | Transport to Lodging Facility | Transport to Lodging Facility | Walking Tour – Athens City Center | |||
6:00pm | Transport to Lodging Facility | Dinner | Dinner | Dinner | ||||
7:00pm | Dinner | Dinner | Reflection | Reflection | Reflection | Return to Lodging Facility | ||
8:00pm | Welcome Meeting | Reflections on client meeting and team assignments | Preparation: Workshop I and Deliverables | Preparation: Workshop II and Deliverables | Preparation: Workshop III and Deliverables | Reflection & Celebration | ||
9:00pm |
Day 1 | |
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7:00am | Airport Pick up and Transport to Lodging Facility |
8:00am | |
9:00am | |
10:00am | |
11:00am | |
12:00pm | |
1:00pm | SWOT Analysis & Technical Field Inspection |
2:00pm | |
3:00pm | |
4:00pm | |
5:00pm | Dinner |
6:00pm | Dinner |
7:00pm | Settle In to Lodging |
8:00pm | |
9:00pm |
Day 2 | |
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7:00am | Breakfast |
8:00am | Business Program Introduction & Safety Debrief |
9:00am | |
10:00am | |
11:00am | |
12:00pm | Lunch |
1:00pm | Transport to Community |
2:00pm | First Business Client Introduction |
3:00pm | |
4:00pm | Transport to Lodging Facility |
5:00pm | Networking |
6:00pm | Dinner |
7:00pm | Reflection |
8:00pm | Review Business Profiles & Financial Literacy Workshop Preparation |
9:00pm |
Day 3 | |
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7:00am | Breakfast |
8:00am | Transport to Community |
9:00am | Business Profile Analysis & Inventory Assessment |
10:00am | |
11:00am | |
12:00pm | Lunch |
1:00pm | SWOT Analysis & Technical Field Inspection |
2:00pm | |
3:00pm | |
4:00pm | Transport to Lodging Facility |
5:00pm | Networking |
6:00pm | Dinner |
7:00pm | Reflection |
8:00pm | Financial Literacy Preparation |
9:00pm |
Day 4 | |
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7:00am | Breakfast |
8:00am | Transport to Community |
9:00am | Financial Literacy for Youth |
10:00am | |
11:00am | |
12:00pm | Lunch |
1:00pm | Business Loan Capacity (Financial Statements) |
2:00pm | |
3:00pm | |
4:00pm | Transport to Lodging Facility |
5:00pm | Networking |
6:00pm | Dinner |
7:00pm | Reflection |
8:00pm | Prepare for Business Training & Financial Literacy Workshop |
9:00pm |
Day 5 | |
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7:00am | Breakfast |
8:00am | Transport to Community |
9:00am | Community Bank Meeting & Financial Literacy Workshop |
10:00am | |
11:00am | |
12:00pm | Lunch |
1:00pm | Business Training (Inventory Management, Marketing, Pricing, Accounting) |
2:00pm | |
3:00pm | |
4:00pm | Transport to Lodging Facility |
5:00pm | Networking |
6:00pm | Dinner |
7:00pm | Reflection |
8:00pm | Business Deliverables Preparation |
9:00pm |
Day 6 | |
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7:00am | Breakfast |
8:00am | Transport to Community |
9:00am | Final Business Deliverables & Business Presentation |
10:00am | |
11:00am | |
12:00pm | Lunch |
1:00pm | Community Bank Promotion & Cultural Exchange |
2:00pm | |
3:00pm | |
4:00pm | Transport to Lodging Facility |
5:00pm | Networking |
6:00pm | Dinner |
7:00pm | Final Reflection |
8:00pm | Packing-up & Networking |
9:00pm |
Day 7 | |
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7:00am | Breakfast |
8:00am | Transport to Airport & Airline Check In |
9:00am | |
10:00am | |
11:00am | |
12:00pm | |
1:00pm | |
2:00pm | |
3:00pm | |
4:00pm | |
5:00pm | |
6:00pm | |
7:00pm | |
8:00pm | |
9:00pm |
Lodging Facilities
We do an annual safety review of all lodging facility partners each year. Lodging facilities provide pillows, bedsheets and towels. Facilities have showers, toilets and sinks with running hot water as well as potable filtered clean water.
Groups are assigned to lodging facilities based on proximity to the partner community they will be working with.
Safety
Volunteer safety will always be our absolute top priority. Global Brigades recently engaged Askari International Security, an industry leader in international risk assessment, to complete a comprehensive risk/safety assessment of all brigade operations. A full explanation of safety precautions and procedures can be found on our “Safety & Insurance” page.
A Quote from Askari International Security
“I was asked to review Global Brigades safety and security procedures for their operations in Central America. I always use a “litmus test” by assessing whether I’d be happy to send my own daughters (late teens early 20’s) on one of their events. The answer was a resounding yes. I hope I was able to help them improve their processes and procedures, but what was already in place was good, but better still was the culture of safety and security. All the staff were concerned with safety and security and keen to improve. Nothing can ever be 100% secure or safe, but with Global Brigades I can genuinely say they care and take things very seriously.”
– Bryan Hemmings, Managing Director, Askari International Security
Safety Highlights in Greece
- Global Brigades is an active member of OSAC (the Overseas Security Advisory Committee) and receives up-to-date security and safety briefings from the U.S. State Department;
- Full-time local Global Brigades medical personnel on-call at all times;
- Adherence to the IVPA standards of international volunteering.