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- Brisbane Australia Karuna Hospice Service - Offers free, 24 hour, compassionate, caring support in Brisbane at home to terminally ill people and their families, based on the Buddhist tradition.
www.karuna.org.au
- Buddhist AIDS Project - Based in San Francisco, California. Provides free information and referral to Buddhist resources and events and to current HIV/AIDS information and alternative medical services. An all-volunteer, non-profit Affiliate of the Buddhist Peace Fellowship(BPF), BAP serves anyone living with HIV/AIDS, including family, friends, caregivers and people who are HIV negative.
www.buddhistaidsproject.org
- Buddhist Peace Fellowship - A worldwide network that strives to bring peace where there is conflict, to promote communication and cooperation among Buddhist sanghas, and to alleviate suffering wherever possible.
www.bpf.org
- Dharma Gaia Trust - Project with a mission to nurture awareness of the complementarity of Buddhism and ecology.
www.rainforestjukebox.org/projects/DGT/welcome.htm
- Earth Sangha - Buddhist environmental nonprofit organization founded on the premise that the Buddhist way of looking at life can play a major role in healing the planet's environmental crisis. Formal mission to practice Buddhism in ways that help people become better stewards of the planet, and to do the practical environmental work that good stewardship demands.
www.earthsangha.org
- Himalayan Kingdom Foundation Trust - A private non-profit organization based in Nepal, sponsoring projects in Ghandruk including a Buddhist Monastery Peace Project in Ghandruk and the construction of the Himalayan Primary Health Care Centre.
www.hkft.org
- Metta Welfare Association - Singaporean organization working for welfare of the poor, the elderly, the disabled and the terminally ill.
www.metta.org.sg/main2.htm
- Multicultural Buddhists for Peace - Buddhist people of color multicultural interfaith message board and speakers bureau sponsoring diversity in the heart of Americans to achieve peace, religious tolerance, heal racism, end violence, and alleviate poverty.
www.rainbowdharma.com
- Network of Engaged Buddhists UK - Politically and socially engaged Buddhists in the UK.
www.peckham.demon.co.uk/neb.htm
- Prison Dharma Network - A nonsectarian Buddhist support network for prisoners, prison volunteers, and correctional workers. An affiliate of the Buddhist Peace Fellowship.
www.prisondharmanetwork.org
- Rokpa - An international family of charities helping the hungry, sick, orphaned and poor.
www.rokpa.org
- Rokpa UK - Non-sectarian non political approach to raising money to build schools and clinics in some of the poorest areas of the world. RokpaUK Charity is based at Samye Ling Tibetan Centre in the boorders of Scotland.
www.rokpauk.org
- Rokpa USA - Works in the areas of basic and further education, health care, relief of hunger, preservation of culture, self-help and ecology.
www.rokpausa.org
- Sangha Metta Project - Engages monks in HIV/AIDS prevention and care. The monks, taking the Buddha's teachings as their inspiration, concluded that a core aspect of HIV/AIDS was ignorance about the condition among both the sufferers and the general public.
www.buddhanet.net/sangha-metta/project.html
- The Buddhist Hospice Trust - Aims to provide compassionate care and companionship for the living, the dying and the bereaved. The Trust is non-sectarian and is open to Buddhists and non-Buddhists alike. It also offers informal support and information to whomsoever may be concerned to better understand Buddhist approaches to living and dying.
freespace.virgin.net/peter.goble/1.htm
- The Karuna Trust - UK based Buddhist organization that has education, health and cultural projects for poor people in India of any religion. Also helps fund Buddhist activities.
www.karuna.org
- Tzu Chi Foundation - Tiawanese compassionate relief organization.
www.tzuchi.org/global
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