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Leave a Legacy With BGR

Please consider designating BGR as a beneficiary for a portion of a fund, trust, or life insurance policy. Legacies through future gifts will benefit the needy for decades to come.

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Your Support Is Changing Lives for the Better

As Buddhist Global Relief embarks on the 16th year of our work to relieve hunger and poverty, we pause to reflect on the transformative change that your generosity has brought to individuals, families, and communities around the world.

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Helping the Hungry in Gaza

In the Middle East, suffering does not pick sides. Whether it is a people seeking retribution for grotesque acts of violence or a militant group seeking redress for years of deprivation and oppression, the suffering, both individual and collective, is shared in common.

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Stop Using Starvation as a Weapon of War!

Acute hunger transfixes our entire organism, pushing everything else aside in favor of our most basic urge for survival. When we’re gripped by extreme hunger, we can think of nothing but food, have no interest in anything but food, and dream of nothing other than a decent meal.

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2024 New Year Retreat: Sustaining Hope in Hard Times

In celebration of the dawning New Year 2024, this four-session retreat featured guided meditation and Dharma talks from Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi, Dassanāya Buddhist Community founder Dhammadīpa, and Vens. Jin Chuan and Jin Wei of the City of Ten Thousand Buddhas.

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Fifteen Years and Growing!

By BGR Deputy Director Patricia Price • Your help allows thousands of girls to be educated equally with boys, provides school meals that incentivize parents to send their girls to school, and helps provide poor mothers with materials and instruction to learn marketable skills with which they can earn income for their families.

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