HELPING HANDS NEWSLETTER
Fall 2025 • Volume 17, Number 3
We Must End the Starvation of Gaza
A quarter of the way into the 21st century, we would never have expected an economically developed nation to deliberately set out to starve an entire population in a territory under its control. Such a policy would seem to belong to a past era, a time before the international community adopted binding codes of human rights. Yet in Gaza today, this assumption is being turned upside down.
Helping Women and Girls Break the Cycle of Poverty in Nagpur, India
Founded by the Australian Buddhist nun Ayya Yeshe, Bodhicitta Foundation provides food, housing, education, vocational training, and social services for people in need in Nagpur, India.
Buddhist Action to Feed the Hungry 2025
Hosted by BGR founder and chair Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi, BGR’s annual Buddhist Action to Feed the Hungry Online Gathering, “Transforming Compassion Into Action,” will be held on October 25, 2025.
BGR Community: A Young Mother Learns Tools to Feed Her Family in Malawi
As climate change and corporate agriculture devastate smallholder farms in Malawi, a young mother receives training in sustainable, climate-resilient agriculture methods from BGR partner Ecology Action.
The Impacts of Rising Food Prices on Hunger
“The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2025,” the U.N.’s annual report on global progress toward achieving the goal of ending hunger, food insecurity, and malnutrition, focuses this year on the consequences of rising food prices around the world.
Foundations of Freedom and Satipațțhāna in Practice, Event 2: Mindfulness of Feeling and Mind
On August 16, 2025, BGR Sangha Council members Ayya Ānandabodhī and Dhammadīpā Roshi offered a half-day of practice on the topic of Mindfulness of Feeling and Mindfulness of Mind. In this second session of BGR's Satipaṭṭhāna in Practice series, our teachers led us in study, reflection, and meditation on the second and third establishments of mindfulness—feeling tones (vedanā) and mind (citta).
HOW YOU CAN HELP
Buddhist Global Relief funds projects providing food, education, and other necessary support to the world’s most vulnerable people. Many of the communities we serve worldwide are experiencing hunger and malnutrition due to deeply entrenched poverty, systemic inequality, and environmental degradation. If you have the ability to help, please consider making a donation to BGR. You can contribute by PayPal or credit card here or by check mailed to our secured Chase Bank lockbox at: Buddhist Global Relief, P.O. Box 24832, New York, NY 10087-4832 USA. Please continue to send all other mail to: Buddhist Global Relief, 2020 Route 301, Carmel, NY 10512, USA.
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