Our Guiding Principles
Multi-Dimensional Problems Demand Multi-Dimensional Solutions
Successful programs embrace the complex nature of the development process, and introduce holistic solutions where possible. For example, our micro finance programs incorporate advocacy on education, sanitation, and human trafficking prevention and our scholarship programs recognize that malnutrition and sickness can interfere with schooling and thus provide food stipends and healthcare. A problem as complicated and complex as poverty demands a similarly complex, thoughtful, and well-planned solution.
Diverse Communities = Diverse Approaches
Through our nearly 20 years of experience, we have learned that cultural nuance must be a core element of program design. We recognize that values, priorities, and capabilities not only change from one country to another, but also from one village to another. Perhaps, more importantly, we recognize that opportunities vary greatly from one community to the next. Whether our target beneficiary is landed or landless, urban or rural, or young or old will determine the type of services we provide them.
Investing Wisely
Charitable funds are finite - particularly for international organizations - and we owe it to our donors and our target communities to expand our resources carefully and smartly. We believe that investing wisely means supporting projects that will: a) achieve sustainable results for entire communities or b) capitalize on the "multiplier effect" by investing in those who promise to pay forward the skills and knowledge they receive.
Maximize Existing Resources
We believe that we can get a lot more mileage from our investment if we augment what already exists. In the case of our core education programs, for example, this means supplementing (v. replicating) the government education system through transportation programs, scholarships, and tutoring. Unlike some of our counterparts in the charitable sector, we don't build private schools or fund private scholarships. We must invest in improving the government system rather than turning our backs on it.
Donate & Help Them To Have Bright Future
Your support makes all the difference. A small sum of money goes a long way in Cambodia, where over a third of the population lives on less than $1 per day.
OUR TEAM
Khyentse Norbu
Chairman
Khyentse Norbu, also known in the Buddhist world as Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche, is trained as a philosophy teacher and attended university in London. He is a student of important Tibetan Buddhist l......[read more]
Julie Chender
President
Julie grew up in Denver, Colorado and attended the University of Colorado and New York University. She worked in event planning in Colorado and, after the family moved from Colorado to Canada in 1......[read more]
Jill Baryluk
Secretary-Treasurer
Jill grew up in Haney in Maple Ridge (near Vancouver) and always had a passion to see the world and experience other cultures. In her twenties she had the opportunity to experience working holid......[read more]
Glenn Fawcett
Project Manger
An Australian native, Glenn came to live in India in 1995 where he worked for almost two years as a volunteer before becoming the Director of the White Lotus Sponsorship Program in 1997. For the ne......[read more]
Judy Cheng
Board Member
Judy was born and raised in Taiwan until she moved to the United States to attend University on a foreign student visa. After university Judy immigrated to Canada where she worked for a natural ga......[read more]
Catherine Douglas
Member at Large
Catherine Douglas is a Lecturer in the Vancouver School of Economics at the University of British Columbia. The emphasis of her teaching, research and community engagement is on the causes of econ......[read more]
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Business Number: 82220 034 RT0001
Society Net: S-49742
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