One-third of Mongolia’s population experiences extreme poverty and is unable to afford basic food and shelter. The Asral NGO was established in 2001 by Tibetan Buddhist monk Ven. Panchen Ötrul Rinpoche to support families affected by poverty and hunger in the poorest sections of Ulanbaatar, Mongolia’s capital city. Asral is Mongolian for “care,” and

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

For decades, civil unrest and government violence have caused a public health nightmare for ethnic minorities in Myanmar. Lack of access to basic health services has increased infant and maternal deaths. Burma Humanitarian Mission is fighting this crisis by training and equipping rural health workers. Support from BGR allows the mission to train and

Sri Lanka has South Asia’s second highest rate of severe acute malnutrition, according to UNICEF, and nearly one in six children here suffer from chronic wasting. In 2022, severe inflation and economic collapse resulted in crisis-level hunger across this nation of 22 million people, as food prices rose by almost 100 percent. BGR partner

BGR partner Wawasonqo of Cusco, Peru, has been working since 2006 to break the cycle of poverty that affects 24 percent of Cusco’s population. Wawasonqo focuses its efforts on three pillars: education, nutrition, and health. The aim of this BGR-sponsored project is to address malnutrition among poor rural families in the Chaquepay peasant community in the

This project with longtime BGR partner the Bodhicitta Foundation provides housing and schooling for 30 young women, ages 14 to 23, who are at risk of having their educations cut short due to poverty, as well as educational funding for 55 other young women. The girls come from some of the poorest regions in

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 and

The Asral NGO was established in 2001 by Tibetan Buddhist monk Ven. Panchen Ötrul Rinpoche to support families affected by poverty and hunger in the poorest sections of Ulanbaatar, Mongolia’s capital city. Asral is Mongolian for “care,” and this project with partner Maitreya Charity provides nutritious lunch meals as well as warm winter outerwear, tutoring,

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

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