BGR Board Approves 54 Projects for the 2022–23 Fiscal Year
This spring, BGR’s Board approved 54 projects serving thousands of people around the world. The project funding for BGR’s fiscal year 2022–23 amounted to over a million dollars.
Buddhist Global Relief’s Helping Hands Podcast
BGR is proud to introduce the Helping Hands Podcast, where listeners can hear directly from project partners, advisors, spiritual friends, and other prominent Buddhist teachers who share in our vision for a world free from poverty and the needless suffering brought about by hunger and malnutrition.
A Vesak Message from Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi
Vesak is the most important holiday of the Buddhist calendar, the day that celebrates the Buddha’s birth, enlightenment, and passing into nirvana. On this day, through worship, ritual, meditation, song, and shared meals, we pay homage to the supreme spiritual teacher who opened for us the “doors to the Deathless.”
Podcast Episode 1: No Such Thing as Disengaged Buddhism, with Alan Senauke
What is an "appropriate response" for those who would practice Engaged Buddhism in today's polarized society? We speak with Hozan Alan Senauke, a Soto Zen priest, social activist, folk musician, and poet residing at the Berkeley Zen Center, where he currently serves as Abbot.
BGR Emergency Grants Support Families Displaced by the Ukraine Conflict
Like many of you, we at Buddhist Global Relief are closely following the invasion of Ukraine. We offer a list of several excellent organizations that are on the ground assisting Ukrainians during this crisis.
Ukraine War Threatens Development Aid to World’s Poorer Nations
The need to provide emergency aid to Ukrainian refugees pouring into neighboring European countries threatens to shift vital poverty relief away from other nations in urgent need. Further, since Ukraine is one of the world’s major breadbaskets, the bombing of the country will also cause drastic cuts in the amount of wheat available to other countries, pushing up prices.
Introducing the Helping Hands Podcast
BGR Founder and Chair Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi introduces the Helping Hands Podcast.
We Must Hear Them
By Ayya Dhammadīpā • Where can we stand, but right here in this place, feeling the burning of the world? What else can we do but find the cool, still place within and the warm, gentle gaze for all people who live in fear, oppressed, enraged?
Expanding Educational Opportunities for Girls in Bangladesh
The Expanding Education for Marma Girls project, with BGR partner the Jamyang Foundation, provides the gift of education for girls from the remote village of Dhosri and surrounding villages in Bangladesh.
Food, Not Feed: Transforming the Global Food System
At the UN Conference on Climate Change in Glasgow, COP26, the raising of livestock was identified as a driver of carbon emissions, turning carbon-sequestering forests and peatlands into grazing land for livestock, and turning arable land that grows food to be directly consumed by people into feed for beef and dairy cattle, pigs, and chickens.
