In Paletwa Township, Chin State, in Myanmar, thousands of people have been internally displaced due to heavy fighting in the region. Among these families, many of whom are living in IDP (internally displaced persons) camps in the region, are hundreds of children whose educations have been put on hold due to government violence and Covid-19.

In Sri Lanka’s Western Province, the Hewagama Model Primary School serves more than one hundred first through fifth graders who face economic and educational challenges. Caring staff members work closely with students to create a nurturing environment. This project with BGR partner the Shraddha Charity Organization will feed 103 students five days a week, and will

Since 1999, the U.S.–based Burma Humanitarian Mission (BHM) has partnered with the Back Pack Health Worker Team to provide health care to members of Myanmar’s oppressed and persecuted ethnic minorities. Teams of backpack medics, 75 percent of them women, from the ethnic minority Karen, Kachin, Shan, Pa’laung, Mon, Chin, and Rohingya communities, each travel to

Dhammajarinee Witthaya School serves students from broken or troubled homes. Ninety-five percent of students have experienced trauma during childhood. Roughly 30 percent of the girls who attend the school have been abandoned, and 20 percent have grown up in homes experiencing extreme poverty. Education gives girls a chance to avoid economic and social exploitation. Every

Poverty in Vietnam is highly concentrated in rural areas. Families work mainly in the agricultural sector, with limited employment opportunities available elsewhere. They have minimal access to credit, infrastructure, social services, and health care. The poverty facing these families has forced parents to keep their children at home as they could not afford the expenses

In the Sironko District of Eastern Uganda, a harrowing cycle of poverty has arisen, with HIV/AIDS at its center: As their parents are lost to AIDS, children as young as 11 are taking on the responsibility of the head of their families, caring for younger siblings. Too young to find appropriate work, but desperate to

The Peace School in Bulega, Uganda, was founded in 2008 by Uganda Buddhist Centre founder and abbot the Most Venerable Bhikkhu Buddarakkhita with the aim of providing a high-quality early childhood education program for local children. This project supports the education of twelve children. In addition to the Uganda National Curriculum, the school provides mindfulness-based education and

In the village of Bulega in southern Uganda, BGR partner Uganda Buddhist Centre (UBC) has established a feeding program to care for some of the many children here who have been orphaned due to parental HIV/AIDS or other illnesses, accidents, abandonment, or conflict-related violence. The orphaned children are at significant risk of maltreatment, exploitation, and sexual and

In San Juan de Miraflores, a community on the outskirts of Lima, more than 55 percent of the population lives in poverty and 10 percent in extreme poverty. Many girls are at risk of becoming child domestic laborers and face great difficulties in gaining an education and escaping the cycle of poverty; our partner reports

The ongoing human rights crisis in Nicaragua has resulted in skyrocketing food costs and unemployment, the confiscation of land and personal property by the government, and economic collapse. In rural communities, only 25 percent of families have access to safe drinking water and sanitary facilities; 50 percent of the rural population lives below the poverty