LOTUS OUTREACH

Programs

1. Other program activity

   $144,719 spentof which $37,617 as grants
   23% of program spending

2. 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.

   $127,768 spentof which $127,768 as grants
   21% of program spending

3. 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.

   $62,745 spentof which $62,745 as grants
   10% of program spending

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.

   $46,249 spentof which $46,249 as grants
   7% of program spending

5. 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.

   $37,297 spentof which $37,297 as grants
   6% of program spending

6. LOCAM: Operating support for Lotus Outreach Cambodia programs

   $32,829 spentof which $32,829 as grants
   5% of program spending

7. 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.

   $29,240 spentof which $29,240 as grants
   5% of program spending

8. 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.

   $22,788 spentof which $22,788 as grants
   4% of program spending

9. BLOSSOM BUS:The Blossom Bus provides vehicles driven by trustworthy drivers to safely deliver young women to secondary school and college. We currently transport over 650 girls to secondary school and 40 young women to college. Until proper secondary schools and colleges become available to all villagers, the Blossom Bus aims to provide transportation to girls and young women at this transitional stage, leading the way in establishing female education as a norm rather than an anomaly.

   $22,779 spentof which $22,779 as grants
   4% of program spending

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

    $19,000 spentof which $19,000 as grants
    3% of program spending

11. 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.

    $16,301 spentof which $16,301 as grants
    3% of program spending

12. 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.

    $16,033 spentof which $16,033 as grants
    3% of program spending

13. 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.

    $12,600 spentof which $12,600 as grants
    2% of program spending

14. 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.

    $9,710 spentof which $9,710 as grants
    2% of program spending

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.

    $8,670 spentof which $8,670 as grants
    1% of program spending

16. 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.

    $7,500 spentof which $7,500 as grants
    1% of program spending

17. 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.

    $6,204 spentof which $6,204 as grants
    1% of program spending

18. 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.

19. 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.

20. 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.

21. 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.

22. 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.

23. 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.

The 23 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $622,432.