Dear Lotus Outreach community and friends,
First and foremost, I am very proud of the legacy and achievements of Lotus Outreach over the last thirty-three years. We started with hands-on help for Tibetan refugees, and it expanded to serve especially girls facing the harshest circumstances in India, Cambodia, and beyond. For three decades, I have really cherished our work together. In 2025, we count more than 150,000 people directly served by Lotus Outreach projects. This is truly incredible, and due to the consistent support of long-term foundation partners and donors. I must thank you for making Lotus Outreach a remarkable success story.
With each person served through Lotus Outreach’s education, training, and care activities, many others are benefited because of the simple reality that daughters and young women who receive help go on to make significant impact in their families, communities, and societies. I don’t say this lightly. Even if one girl makes a difference, the sphere of her influence is ever-expanding and incalculable. For this reason, thanks to the beneficiaries of Lotus Outreach, we have together been able to meaningfully impact the lives of hundreds of thousands of people.
In general, I have no doubt about the importance of philanthropic and compassionate activity that helps those who are unfortunate and even destitute. Especially in regard to our own activities at every level — in terms of intention, action, and the results we’ve achieved — I am fully convinced of the actual benefit Lotus Outreach has brought so many.
As many of you know, I am someone who has inherited a title that brings immense responsibility to continue a particular legacy, including undertaking activities that have real necessity and urgency. At the same time, I am already in my mid-60s and getting older, while demands and commitments continue to grow. For both reasons — age and the Khyentse lineage responsibilities — I made the difficult decision this year to step down from my responsibilities at Lotus Outreach.
As a result of this, our Board of Directors, who have served more than twenty years in leadership as volunteers themselves, also looked closely at Lotus Outreach today and what we have achieved. We reached the conclusion that it is time to celebrate the accomplishments of Lotus Outreach and complete our work together, after three decades of exertion, aspiration, and impact.
It is also the case that the sustainability of our business model has become more challenging with constraints and economic pressures around the world. On the other hand, some of the foundation partners of Lotus Outreach have welcomely committed to continuing to support the essential local NGOs that Lotus Outreach has been responsible for developing in India and Cambodia for more than twenty years. I have confidence in the leadership of our local teams, who intend to continue to sustain their essential projects and impact. To this end, White Lotus Trust in India and Lotus Outreach Cambodia will become independent. Their desire to empower youth and nurture equitableness at this time is very poignant.
If you can help Lotus Outreach International fulfill our final commitments and navigate this final year, 2025 through 2026, by making a donation, please do. Please also continue to do what you can for others in the spirit of our decades-long work together. I’d also like to thank our board of directors and team — including LO affiliates, staff, countless volunteers, and many others who have offered their time and resources towards our mission and cause.
2026 will be our final year at Lotus Outreach. Thank you for your awe-inspiring generosity towards the aims of this organization and vision of holistic change and empowerment. Lotus Outreach will end, but the effects of our aspirations, work, and decades of transformation will continue.
With sincere gratitude,
Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse