HELPING HANDS NEWSLETTER
Cultivating Nutrient-Rich Fruits and Vegetables in the Andean Foothills of Peru
Wawasonqo, a BGR partner based in Peru, has been working since 2006 to break the cycle of poverty that affects rural children and families in the rural Andean foothills near the city of Cusco.
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.
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.
Kim Behan Receives the Outstanding Woman in Buddhism Award
Ayya Anandabodhi Bhikkhuni, of Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery, shares a beautiful tribute to BGR Executive Director Kim Behan.
Can A Doughnut Help to Heal Our World?
The dominant economic model followed by virtually all major economies is inflicting grave injuries on the planet’s fragile ecosystem and causing glaring economic and social inequalities. Can a diagram of a doughnut offer us a key to resolving our predicament?
Agricultural and Vocational Livelihoods Support for Women in Need in India
A partnership between BGR and Building Bridges India is empowering the widows of farmers who committed suicide to escape the bane of poverty and learn new skills that enable them to earn a decent living. One project trains women in organic farming; the other teaches them embroidery and sewing.
Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi and Kim Behan Win Prestigious Award
This past October 15, our Chairperson, Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi, and Executive Director, Kim Behan jointly received the prestigious Dr. Ambedkar Prabuddha Bharata Peace Award, granted by the Nagarjuna Training Institute. The institute, based at Nagaloka in Nagpur, continues the heritage of Engaged Buddhism started by the Dalit leader, Dr. B.R. Ambedkar (1891-1956).
HOW YOU CAN HELP
During the coronavirus crisis, Buddhist Global Relief is continuing to fund projects providing food, education, and other necessary support to the world’s most vulnerable people. Many of the communities we serve worldwide are experiencing immense need as this epidemic spreads among vulnerable and medically underserved populations. If you have the ability to help, please consider donating to BGR. You can contribute by PayPal or credit card here or by check mailed to: Buddhist Global Relief, 2020 Route 301, Carmel, NY 10512, USA.
