HELPING HANDS NEWSLETTER
Fall 2024 • Volume 16, Number 3
Expanding BGR’s Mission
By Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi • BGR's founder and chair reflects on the organization's expanded ability to ease the suffering of hunger and poverty not only through local grassroots projects but also by contributing to large-scale emergency relief efforts. Photograph ©UNICEF Ethiopia/2023/Mulugeta Ayene
Victory Gardens for Peace
In a visit to Ecology Action's educational farm in Mendocino, California, BGR Board member Daniel Blake encountered a partnership of farmers and community leaders engaged in joyful collaboration as they shared sustainable agriculture strategies under the umbrella of the Grow Biointensive cultivation method.
Feeding Children in Need in Haiti
Children in Haiti face complex challenges stemming from economic, political, and climate-related factors. Grassroots organizations have been working to help children during this time of crisis. Through programs that meet the nutritional needs of children and help young people find their place in a changing country, these groups are working to build stronger communities and offer hope.
You Are Changing the World for the Better
You, as a friend of BGR, are one of the reasons we can award grants each year to support child nutrition and education, teach community gardening (while providing seeds and tools), and empower marginalized women through vocational training in various marketable fields.
The Loving Heart Seeks to Sustain All
Please join Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi and the global BGR community for our annual online gathering, to be held on Saturday, October 26 from 1 to 3 pm Eastern Time (10 am to 12 pm Pacific Time).
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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