The mission of the U.S.-based Joan Rose Foundation is to improve the lives of children and their families in Jacmel, Haiti. Working out of three feeding/learning centers, the foundation provides vulnerable children with food, tutoring, school tuition, medicine, and clothing, with the goal of breaking the cycle of poverty for these children and their families. BGR’s

BGR partner Keep Growing Detroit (KGD) was established to promote a food-sovereign city, in which most of the fruits and vegetables Detroiters consume are grown by residents within city limits. In 2021, over half of Detroit households were food insecure; 30,000 Detroiters did not have access to a full-service grocery store; 40 percent of Detroit households relied

BGR partner the Sahuarita Food Bank and Community Resource Center serves the low-income population of southeastern Pima County, Arizona, a mostly rural area. This project will address poverty in Summit, Arizona, a small community with a household poverty rate of 23 percent, one of the three lowest income rural communities in Arizona. This project focuses on

According to UNICEF, the number of Haitian children in need of humanitarian aid has increased by half a million in the last two years. With this project, longtime BGR partner Trees That Feed Foundation (TTFF) provides nutrient-rich and hearty food to schoolchildren. In addressing hunger and education, TTFF also supports the local economy and improves climate

BGR’s partner in this project, U.S.-based

At Children’s National Hospital (CNH) in Washington, D.C., Type 2 diabetes (T2D) diagnoses rose 182 percent during the first year of the Covid pandemic, compared to the prior two years. A CNH needs assessment found that two-thirds of the 5,000 children cared for at the hospital's Diabetes Care Complex are food insecure. In October 2021,

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

Food insecurity is a major issue facing the residents of Nairobi’s Mukuru community. Droughts, the high cost of domestic food production, increasing food prices globally, and the economic effects of coronavirus have strained families, half of whom live below the poverty line. Child malnutrition is widespread.   A project with The Ruben Centre is designed to foster

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

Since its founding in 1977, the Bangladesh Buddhist Missionary Society (BBMS) has provided shelter and care to orphaned children from impoverished families at its Orphans’ Home Complex under the guidance of its founder and director, the Ven. Jivanananda Mahathero. The orphans’ home, located in the rural Chittagong Hills region of Bangladesh, near the Karnaphuli River,