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Helping Hands Newsletter
by Andrew Harvey,
BGR adviser
Our Projects
BGR projects are designed both to provide emergency food aid and to promote greater food productivity at the grassroots level. We partner with organizations that are already operating on the ground in areas of interest. MORE
Project: India |
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Task: Enable child migrant laborers to enroll in and attend school Partner: Lotus Outreach International MORE |
Project: Niger |
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Task: Micronutrient distribution to children and women in Zinder, Niger Partner: Helen Keller International MORE |
Project: Cambodia |
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Task: Provide food support to at-risk and exploited girl students Partner: Lotus Outreach International MORE |
Project: Sri Lanka |
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Task: Microfinance women’s livelihood program Partner: Sarvodaya Women’s Movement MORE |
Project: Vietnam |
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Task: Provide meals for hospital patients Partner: Local Red Cross of District Tam Binh MORE |
Afghanistan – Pakistan
New project to educate girls in remote regions
BGR has partnered with Central Asia Institute helping schoolgirls like these in Torghu Balla, Pakistan
Buddhist Global Relief (BGR) recently decided to support a visionary project dedicated to promoting education for children—especially young girls—in some of the most remote and impoverished villages of Afghanistan and Pakistan. For our on-the-ground partner in this region, BGR has chosen the Central Asia Institute (CAI), a remarkable organization led by a remarkable man, Greg Mortenson. In 1993, moved by the kindness of the villagers he met while recovering from a failed attempt to climb Pakistan’s highest mountain, Mortenson vowed to return and build a school. Since then, he and the CAI have built more than 130 schools and enrolled more than 50,000 students, including 30,000 girls. Mortenson has written about his work in the New York Times bestseller, Three Cups of Tea, and its sequel, Stones for Schools. CAI’s guiding principle—to rely on local partnerships to accomplish their mission—is an easy fit with BGR’s. By building schools, they are building peace, building friendships across cultures, building hopes for a brighter future on both sides of the world. Having carefully examined the wonderful work of the Central Asia Institute, BGR has decided to support the Institute’s efforts to educate girls in Afghanistan and Pakistan with a grant of $10,000. Our ability to continue to offer this kind of help depends on the kindness and generosity of our donors, good-hearted people like you who share our ideals and resonate with our values. By making a donation to BGR you will help to transform a generation of young lives with projects like this where education and hope are in short supply.
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profile from cambodia
rina can now dream of medical school due to rice support
The story of 18 year-old Long Rina highlights the critical impact of the Girls’ Access to Education (GATE) scholarship program’s new rice support component sponsored by BGR. While scholarships can nudge talented and ambitious girls into education, the omnipresence of poverty is a constant threat to their success. By far, the most common menace is the lack of food. Rina entered GATE in 2007 and quickly established herself as a bright and remarkable young woman. Her vibrant spirit took in Program Director Raksmey Var, who hoped to help Rina achieve her dream of becoming a medical doctor. MORE
