Lotus Outreach

“The organization will provide a copy of Form 990 to all members of its governing body once it is prepared.”

“Inquiries of board members.”

“To the public on its website, on guidestar, in its annual report, and upon request. It also makes that policy clear in a variety of communications with its staff, volunteers, donors, and the public.”

“OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 4: 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. OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 5: Buddha Smiles: Buddha Smiles evening classes have been serving poor children of quarry labor, weaving artisans and subsistence farmers for more than 15 years. Buddha Smiles, is a network of local volunteer teachers that assist struggling primary school students with free after-school tutoring for less than $15 per student per year. OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 6: 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. OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 7: 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. OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 8: Khemar Pre-School: Provides early childhood development for the neediest children through games, nutrition, and education. OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 9: 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. OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 10: 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. OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 11: 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. OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 12: 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. OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 13: LOCAM: Operating support for Lotus Outreach Cambodia programs OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 14: 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. OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 15: 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. OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 16: 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,”