Our projects

BGR projects are designed both to provide emergency food aid and to promote greater food productivity at the grass-roots level. We partner with organizations that are already operating on the ground in areas of interest. >
Cambodia
Cambodia
RICE INTENSIFICATION
Provide village-scale training for intensified rice cultivation to rural farmers in five villages >
Kenya
Kenya
WOMEN’S TRAINING IN FARMING
Train 1,650 African women in the sustainable Grow Biointensive® method of farming >
Niger
Niger
BREASTFEEDING PROGRAM
Reduce malnutrition and mortality of children under two years of age in 18 villages of the Diffa Region >
Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka
GIRLS’ VOCATIONAL TRAINING
Provide education and skills to disadvantaged girls in order to attain sustainable livelihoods >
India
India
EDUCATE SLUM CHILDREN
Provide education, school supplies, and counseling for 200 slum children, mostly girls, in Nagpur >
• Cambodia
CRITICAL RICE SUPPORT Provide critical monthly rice support to enable poor families to keep their daughters in school >
• Cambodia
SEEDS AND TOOLS Provide families in Pursat with start-up farming kits of cash crop seeds and garden tools >
• Cambodia
AID FOR SEX WORKERS Support non-formal education class for sex workers and their children in Phnom Penh red light district >
• Haiti
MEALS FOR PORT-AU-PRINCE CHILDREN Supply thousands of nutritious meals to hungry children – often their only meal for the day >
• United States
PRODUCE FOR THE POOR Support local farms that grow fresh produce for emergency food agencies in the D.C. area >
• Vietnam
RICE INTENSIFICATION FOR RURAL FARMERS Support training in sustainable rice farming and developing field practice, self-development, and work group skills >
• Vietnam
FOOD FOR HOSPITAL PATIENTS Provide thousands of meals to poverty-stricken patients at an overcrowded, understaffed rural hospital >
• Vietnam
RED CROSS SCHOLARSHIPS Help children of the poorest of the poor in Tam Binh District and Cam Duong Commune attend primary and secondary school >
 

Dharma Offering

Address at the United Nations
at the International Celebration of Vesak

by Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi

May 7, 2012

Venerable Members of the Sangha, Your Excellencies, Distinguished Guests,

We have gathered here today in the Hall of the General Assembly at the United Nations to celebrate Vesak, the day that commemorates the birth, the enlightenment, and the parinirvana of Lord Buddha. Throughout its long history of 2600 years, Buddhism has contributed in incalculable ways to the ennobling of humanity. It has offered moral guidance, a refined system of values, profound philosophies, methods of personal cultivation, and inspiring ideals that express the highest visions of the human potential. From its origins in northern India it spread throughout Asia and became the spiritual heart of the greatest Asian cultures. Over the past two centuries, its universal message has spoken to people in all continents, and it now has won an increasing number of adherents in the West.   MORE >

It Takes Two to Tango:
The Human Future and the Future of Buddhism

by Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi

This lecture was given at a session of "Google Tech Talks" at a Google site in the San Francisco Bay Area. The lecture was given on November 3, 2010.

Towards an Integral Model of Buddhism

Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi

This lecture was given to the board members and volunteers of Buddhist Global Relief during a Board Retreat. It is an early attempt by Ven. Bodhi to develop a model for understanding and practicing Buddhism suitable for the post-modern stage of mind’s evolution. A Domain Matika that illustrates the structure of realms and their interconnectness can be downloaded as a PDF. The lecture was given on April 10th, 2010, at Bodhi Monastery in Lafayette, NJ.

Towards an Integral Model of Buddhism

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Video Lecture by Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi

The Practice of Compassion

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Essays

Love and Compassion in Meditation and in Action.