The Jamyang Foundation, founded in 1988, supports innovative education projects for indigenous girls and women in two of the neediest and most remote parts of the world: the Indian Himalayas and the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh. This year, BGR is again sponsoring Jamyang’s School Lunches for Marma Girls project in Bangladesh, feeding students at Visakha Girls’ School, which serves disadvantaged girls from the remote village of Dhoshri and surrounding villages. The program provides healthy food at least once a day for 128 girls in preschool through fifth grade. Before the school’s founding most girls in the area had no access to education, and in the first few years of the school’s existence many children were so malnourished that they struggled to complete their studies. Through the school lunch project, even those students who walk miles over difficult terrain for the opportunity to attend school are now healthy and happy and able to focus on their lessons. The teachers are hopeful that more grades will be added in the future to continue to serve these students. Annually renewable project
The Jamyang Foundation, founded in 1988, supports innovative education projects for indigenous girls and women in two of the neediest and most remote parts of the world: the Indian Himalayas and the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh. This year, BGR is again sponsoring Jamyang’s School Lunches for Marma Girls project in Bangladesh, feeding students at Visakha Girls’ School, which serves disadvantaged girls from the remote village of Dhoshri and surrounding villages. The program provides healthy food at least once a day for 128 girls in preschool through fifth grade. Before the school’s founding most girls in the area had no access to education, and in the first few years of the school’s existence many children were so malnourished that they struggled to complete their studies. Through the school lunch project, even those students who walk miles over difficult terrain for the opportunity to attend school are now healthy and happy and able to focus on their lessons. The teachers are hopeful that more grades will be added in the future to continue to serve these students. Annually renewable project
