A little bit about Sasha

Greeting readers!

Welcome to our Microfinance Brigades at Chapman University’s blog. My name is Sasha Ngo and I am currently a junior pursuing a degree in Business Administration with a double emphasis in International Business and Finance. You might be asking yourself, why on earth did she decide to go down this road? Here’s my answer.

Growing up in Thailand, I was granted the chance to experience the world from a different cultural perspective. I have learned that not everyone is fortunate to have the luxury of walking 10 steps to grab a drink of water or the luxury of eating whenever we feel hunger. I have learned that we can’t choose the lives we were given or can we choose the places we were born. I have also learned that the truest test in life is what we can do for one another. I would like to help provide everyone, even those in poverty, the chance to succeed and the chance to fulfill their life-long dream. Through various experiences and opportunities, social entrepreneurship has become one of my many interests. Here I am today with the opportunity to change the world, big or small – that’s not the point. I decided to go into the business field so I could help others do something they can’t already do for themselves. With the same passions and aspirations, this past year my best friend, Scott, and I re-established the Microfinance Brigades chapter of Global Brigades on Chapman University campus. As the Co-President of MFB, I have the responsibility of ensuring the success of this project and that our trip to Honduras is accomplished at its fullest potential. Our team and I have been putting a lot of effort into fundraising so we could afford to go to Honduras and change people’s lives!

Please join us on this incredible journey. A hundred dollars from one of my team members, is much more difficult than $10 from ten of you. You could be a valuable asset to creating long lasting changes in these communities and a life-changing experience for my group members and me. If you have not yet planned service efforts for the Japan tsunami relief or Haiti, I kindly ask you to consider Global Brigades as that initial step! Please visit our fundraising page and help change lives by donating to our Microfinance Brigades group.

Everybody can be great. Because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and your verb agree to serve... You don't have to know the second theory of thermodynamics in physics to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love. -Martin Luther King, Jr.