The Jamyang Foundation, founded in 1988, supports innovative education projects for Indigenous girls and women in two of the neediest and most remote parts of the world:  the Indian Himalayas and the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh. For several years, BGR has sponsored Jamyang’s School Lunches for Marma Girls project in Bangladesh, feeding students at

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

In Undrajavaram Mandal in Andhra Pradesh, nearly 30 percent of the population lacks access to sanitary toilets, contributing to the spread of diseases like typhoid, polio, diarrhea, jaundice, and cholera. The lack of adequate toilets and hygiene facilities in schools presents a particular challenge to girls, who often miss school while menstruating, falling behind and

The economic crisis facing Sri Lanka–which has seen food prices almost double in the last year and shortages of fuel and other goods–has created unimaginable obstacles for families and the nation’s schools. Roughly 20 percent of students in the fall of 2022 arrived each day with empty stomachs, and many families did not send their