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 >

Tools for Activists

Overview Brochures:
Read First Brochure  
BGR Brochure – English
black & white
(document revised 01.01.2011)
BGR Brochure – English
color – for use with desktop printers
(document revised 02.27.2011)
BGR Brochure – English
color – includes professional printer’s marks
(document revised 02.27.2011)
BGR Brochure – Chinese
black & white
Appeal Poster/Flyer:
BGR 8.5x11 Appeal Poster/Flyer – English   (document revised on 04.15.2011)
BGR 8.5x11 Appeal Poster/Flyer – Chinese
“Introduction to BGR” Presentation:
Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 version (~50 MB)
PDF version (~5 MB)