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Undergraduate students are lending their business expertise to development projects from India to Honduras. Penn International Business Volunteers travel overseas for two to four weeks to assist non-governmental organizations in fundraising, financial planning and productivity improvement. Founded in 2004 by Wharton student Valerie Tsai, the first PIBV traveled to Honduras in the summer of 2005 to work with the NGO Safe Passage, which provides education to underprivileged children. Students have assisted the Foundation for Sustainable Harvest, also in Honduras, in improving their micofinancing strategy and preparing a five-year long-term plan.
This summer, PIBV will travel to Peru and India, where they will work with Video Volunteers (pictured at right), a non-profit that enables illiterate people to share information about economic and social issues through videos. PIBV will create a two-year strategy for the group, as well as provide research on non-profit organizations within India that could partner with Video Volunteers.
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