Our partner in this project, Moanoghar, was founded in 1974 by a group of Buddhist monks to provide shelter to children of Bangladesh’s Chittagong Hill Tracts affected by conflict or living in remote areas. Today Moanoghar School provides free or highly subsidized education to about 1,250 disadvantaged children from different ethnic indigenous communities of this rural, mountainous region; more than 700 of the students live on campus in residential hostels.
This project has been designed to provide for both the immediate needs of the children at Moanoghar and the longer-term support of the school. In the short term, the project will create vegetable gardens on the Moanoghar grounds to bolster the nutrition of children living at the school. The project will also provide a nutritious midday meal to the children during their school break. For the longer term, a nursery of nut- and fruit-tree saplings will be planted, with additional saplings provided to guardians of Moanoghar students. The project will directly benefit over 1,300 children, almost half of whom are girls; additionally, trainings will benefit more than 60 adults and their families.
This project is co-sponsored by BGR’s European sister organization, Mitgefühl in Aktion (MiA).
Our partner in this project, Moanoghar, was founded in 1974 by a group of Buddhist monks to provide shelter to children of Bangladesh’s Chittagong Hill Tracts affected by conflict or living in remote areas. Today Moanoghar School provides free or highly subsidized education to about 1,250 disadvantaged children from different ethnic indigenous communities of this rural, mountainous region; more than 700 of the students live on campus in residential hostels.
This project has been designed to provide for both the immediate needs of the children at Moanoghar and the longer-term support of the school. In the short term, the project will create vegetable gardens on the Moanoghar grounds to bolster the nutrition of children living at the school. The project will also provide a nutritious midday meal to the children during their school break. For the longer term, a nursery of nut- and fruit-tree saplings will be planted, with additional saplings provided to guardians of Moanoghar students. The project will directly benefit over 1,300 children, almost half of whom are girls; additionally, trainings will benefit more than 60 adults and their families.
This project is co-sponsored by BGR’s European sister organization, Mitgefühl in Aktion (MiA).
