This project with long-term BGR partner Rachana aims to improve food security, health, gender equity, children’s educational opportunities, and living conditions for poor families and vulnerable individuals in rural Cambodia. While Cambodia has made great progress in reducing poverty over the past decade, extreme poverty remains widespread. The Covid pandemic increased food insecurity among

Lotus Outreach International (LOI), a BGR partner since 2009, works to improve the lives of women and girls in Cambodia through initiatives that increase girls’ access to education. LOI’s Cambodian Tertiary Education and Leadership Youth Training (CATALYST) program supports qualified high school graduates from some of the poorest families in rural Cambodia as they continue

Lotus Outreach International (LOI), a trusted BGR partner since 2009, works to improve the lives of women and girls in Cambodia and India through initiatives that increase girls’ access to education. The organization also provides counseling and safe havens for victims of trafficking and domestic violence, and supports women’s economic empowerment through skills training

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

Under Cambodian law, children under the age of 3 can live in prisons with their mothers. Children experience difficult prison conditions at a crucial point in their development. Pregnant women are not provided with pre- and post-natal care and are often forced to return to prison one day after giving birth. LICADHO, the Cambodian

In the rural Zombo District of Uganda, more than 90 percent of residents depend on small-scale agriculture for their livelihoods; a majority of these farmers are women who rely on agricultural production to feed their families and earn income by selling crops at local markets. Land degradation, poor soil health, and high dependence on

In Sri Lanka, low-income women face tremendous barriers in accessing the vocational education necessary for lifting themselves and their families out of poverty. Even among women who qualify for tuition-free education, many find themselves unable to afford to pay for their room and board, required uniforms, data plans for online classes, and other necessities.

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 the rural communities served by this project, only 25 percent of families have access to safe drinking water and sanitary facilities; 50 percent of the

Mozambique ranks 185th out of 191 countries on the United Nations Development Programme’s Human Development Index. The economy in Mozambique is primarily based on agriculture, a sector whose labor force is nearly 90 percent women. In Inhambane province, the food security of approximately 125,000 people has reached “crisis” level, meaning that many households are not consuming enough food and

This project with BGR partner the Grow Biointensive Agriculture Centre of Kenya (G-BIACK) has been created to address food insecurity and malnutrition and to raise the income of poor farmers in parts of Kiambu and Machakos Counties, areas that are predominantly inhabited by the Kikuyu and Kamba tribal communities, respectively. Building on previous BGR–G-BIACK partnerships, the