Our Programs

Our programs operate in places where corruption, weak governance, high levels of poverty and gender inequality lead to exploitation and suffering of all kinds. Our approach combines education, training, and the provision of essential care and protection to ensure a multidimensional and sustainable vision of empowerment. 

INDIA

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

Blossom Bus

Help provide daily transportation for girls who live too far to walk safely to the nearest school or college.

Lotus Pedals

Help provide heavy terrain bicycles to girls in rural areas who would not otherwise be able to travel the long distance to school.

Kapadia Scholars

Kapadia Scholars provides youth from urban slums in Delhi with mentoring, university scholarships for annual fees, including for online degree courses, and the support they need to stick with it.

Jharkhand Project

Jharkhand Project serves female youth in remote tribal areas of India, notorious for early marriages and human trafficking, with access to education, training, and career counseling.

Buddha Smiles

Help provide after school education and tutoring to children of illiterate laborers in Tamil Nadu.

Urban Youth Project

Urban Youth Project has established a new education center, the “Hub,” serving at-risk children and youth in the low income settlements of Northwest Delhi with a range of education and training opportunities.

STEP

Help us provide income-generating skills to women and men who would otherwise remain in poverty.

EQU+

Help provide after school tutoring to children of migrant laborers in Delhi, India so that they can stay in school.

CARE

ASHA

Help provide health care services to women and children.

Garden of Peace

Help deliver morning porridge and a hearty lunch of rice, dal and vegetables to school children from some of the poorest village families in India.

Lotus Relief

An initiative to meet the urgent needs of vulnerable communities affected by the coronavirus pandemic.

CAMBODIA AND VIETNAM

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

Lotus Pedals

Help provide heavy terrain bicycles to girls in rural areas who would not otherwise be able to travel the long distance to school.

GATE

Help provide educational scholarships to young girls in Phnom Penh, Siem Reap and Banteay Meanchey.

Catalyst

Help provide scholarship support to our GATE program graduates so they can continue their studies at the university level.

PNC/V

PNC provides top female students in Vietnam and Cambodia three years of high quality Information Technology (IT) specialized training in a holistic residential environment, leading to well paid employment for every graduate.

CARE

Getting Well

Help construct water wells that serve entire villages in the drought-prone regions of rural Cambodia.

WINS

Water In Schools (WINS) installs water filtration systems in rural Cambodian schools in collaboration with committed faculty members to provide 500-700 school children access to clean drinking water and improved wellbeing.

Rice 4 Education

Help provide rice support to poor village families in Cambodia.

CTC

Help provide trauma therapy, social assistance, and small business grants to survivors of human trafficking, sexual abuse and domestic violence residing in a women's shelter in rural Cambodia.

Lotus Relief

An initiative to meet the urgent needs of vulnerable communities affected by the coronavirus pandemic.

BRAZIL

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

Solidarity Market

Solidarity Market serves some of the poorest families in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Our partner, Mulheres da Parada, distributes food every 15 days in a market, prioritizing single-parent families headed by women.

GUATEMALA

CARE

First Steps

In partnership with Primeros Pasos, First Steps provides crucial healthcare and resources to people living in a very remote region of Guatemala where there are high incidents of malnutrition and a general lack of infrastructure and resources for public health.