Lotus Outreach

SKILLS TRAINING FOR EMPLOYMENT (STEP): Skills Training for Employment seeks to reduce poverty by providing income-generating skills to those who most need them. Women learn tailoring and men are taught electrical and mechanical skills. Without this ability to earn greater income, these women and men would remain in poverty, eking out a living on $4 per day as daily wage earners.

CATALYST: Through full scholarships (covering tuition, food, residence, utilities, class fees, and a daily allowance) of approximately $1,800 per girl, per year, the CATALYST program carries on the work of GATE by seeing through our long-term investment in girls education by helping to rebuild the intellectual class that was completely decimated by the Khmer Rouge only a generation ago.

EQU+: The EQU+ after school program serves children of migrant laborers by enrolling them in school and providing evening bridge classes to ensure they keep up at an age-appropriate level. The program also engages parents and seeks to establish formal relationships between parents and the schools.

LOCAM: Operating support for Lotus Outreach Cambodia programs

Girls Access to Education (GATE): Provides scholarships to girls who are at-risk or are survivors of violence in order to keep them enrolled in school. Our goal is for these girls to attend school through the third year of high school, and further if possible.

The Buddha Smiles program is designed to ensure access to quality education for children whose parents are illiterate and from low income sectors including migrant labor, poor weavers and for children of poor villagers that depend on government schools which lack resources to ensure such children are able to cope with their studies. Children from high-income families are able to send their children to private schools or at least, pay for after school tuition, so this program is aimed at ensuring equal access to quality education for low-income families.

Rice 4 Education: Provides rice support to poor village families with girls in scholarship programs in Cambodia keeping the most vulnerable from dropping out of school.

Lotus Pedals: By providing bicycles with locks and repair kits, Lotus Pedals has changed the lives of hundreds of girls by supplying safe, reliable transportation. When girls stay in school, their achievements far exceed the basics of formal lessons: they gain confidence, access to academic communities, and the respect of their families and neighbors.

SANTI SENA: Through our partnership with Santi Sena, this program will work to empower and create wellbeing in beneficiary communities through two-fold objectives: to reduce barriers to food security for the poor through saving, resilient agriculture, marketing and supply chain improvement, and to improve practices of sanitation and hygiene behavior.

PASSARELLES NUMERIQUES CAMBODIA (PNC): PNC supports GATE scholars in attending PNCs IT training program offering courses in System and Network Administration (SNA) and Web Programming (WEB). Lotus Outreach supports 50% of the cost for students to attend this two-year residential program.

The Kapadia Tertiary Scholars program supports tertiary education for community-minded post-secondary students from lower income groups across several states in India. Included in the financial support are tuition, annual fees, education materials, and text books. Successful candidates receive orientation including being initiated into a "giving back and paying forward" mindset.

Counseling and Reintegration (CTC): The counseling and reintegration project supported by Lotus Outreach provides a safe haven for survivors of violence, guarantees them physical protection and emotional support, and provides them the sanctuary needed for recovery. Support includes individual and group counseling, literacy courses, vocational training, life skills classes, legal services and reintegration assistance.

GARDEN OF PEACE - INTEGRATED RURAL DEVELOPMENT (IRD): This project established oil processing units for Self Help Groups in Tamil Nadu, India, as part of a sustainable rural development project, which will provide employment for economically challenged rural women and men (80% / 20%), especially those impacted by the Covid pandemic.

Khemar Pre-School: Provides early childhood development for the neediest children through games, nutrition, and education.

Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHA): ASHA improves women and childrens village health care by training local government healthcare workers, ensuring better quality, and increasing access by education their communities about vital health care rights and practices in rural Rajasthan, India.

LOTUS RELIEF: This program was established in 2020 to meet the urgent needs of the communities we serve during crises. This emergency relief supports at-home study materials, health education advocacy, and emergency food aid for students and families affected by the pandemic.

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.

Getting Wells: This program installs water wells that serve entire villages in drought prone regions of rural Cambodia, as well as providing education to recipient communities regarding water sanitation and hygiene.

Kapadia Scholars: Kapadia Scholars provides youth from destitute urban neighborhoods in Delhi with mentoring, university annual fee scholarships including online degrees and ongoing peripheral support.

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.

Water in Schools (WINS): WINS installs water filtration systems in rural Cambodian schools in collaboration with committed faculty to provide school children access to clean drinking water.