Active Project
Where We Are Working
Rebuilding After the Floods
"Their face is also your face."
— Maitreya
When the flash floods came, families lost far more than walls and a roof. They lost the place where life is held together.
The Foundation is working alongside a local team in Nepal — people who know these communities, their needs, and their land — to help families who lost their homes rebuild safe, lasting shelter. This is where our work has begun, and it is where our attention is now.
We have opened a GoFundMe campaign to support this housing effort. Every contribution, of any size, helps a family move closer to having a home again.
Where homes once stood, the floods left mud and silence. This is what our partners are helping families rebuild from.
The Foundation is at the very beginning of its life. Right now, our one active work is the housing project in Nepal, carried out together with our partners on the ground.
Everything else on this page is our vision — the work we hope to grow into, step by step, as trust, resources, and the right partnerships come together. We would rather tell you the truth about a small beginning than overstate what has been done.
Seven fundamental dignities — the irreducible basics of a fully human life. Our long-term hope is to help bring each of them to communities around the world. Shelter is where we have begun.
Helping families who have lost their homes to rebuild
Where we've begun
Nourishment for communities in need
Clean water and safe sanitation
Learning that opens a life
Warmth and protection for those without it
Contemplative and trauma-informed support, freely offered
Every act of genuine care is a teaching
These are the commitments we intend to hold in every decision and every partnership — beginning with the first one.
Every human being carries an inherent wholeness that no circumstance, no poverty, no loss can ultimately diminish. Service is not charity extended downward but recognition offered across.
The basics of a fully human life belong to every human being, regardless of race, religion, nationality, gender, age, or belief. We do not distinguish between deserving and undeserving.
The people closest to a need understand it best. We work alongside local teams as partners, resourcing their efforts rather than arriving with outside solutions. We listen. We learn.
We will only ever describe work we are actually doing. As the Foundation grows, we intend to share clearly where support goes and what it accomplishes. Trust is not claimed — it is earned.
The separation between inner work and outer service is the very illusion we are here to dissolve. A housed family can rest. A person who knows they are cared for can discover who they truly are.
Love is not a sentiment. It is a discipline — expressed in showing up consistently, in patient partnership, and in the willingness to be changed by what we encounter.
Intentions, not promises. We hold these lightly and will pursue them only as fast as we can do so well.
Give our full attention to the families in Nepal and to supporting our partners there in rebuilding homes.
Build relationships with trustworthy, community-rooted organisations, one at a time, wherever the need is real.
Offer scholarships and free access so that financial circumstance never decides who can receive the teaching.
Places offering food, learning, contemplative teaching, and healing support in regions of greatest need.
We do not arrive with answers. We arrive with resources and the willingness to listen.
Not only homes rebuilt, but the dignity kept in every interaction and the love actually present in the work.
Giving is one form of support. There are others — each equally real, and each deeply welcome at this early stage.
Send the Nepal GoFundMe to one person who might care. That is how real support grows — one human being saying to another: this matters, and I thought of you.
Open the Campaign →Logistics, communications, translation, design, legal, fundraising, construction knowledge — if you have skills and a genuine wish to contribute them, we would love to hear from you.
Begin a Conversation →We are open to partnering with trustworthy, community-rooted organisations working in basic needs, education, or healing. Every enquiry is read personally and taken seriously.
Propose a Partnership →The Foundation was founded by Maitreya and its board is now forming. We welcome people of integrity with experience in development, finance, law, or contemplative practice. Positions are voluntary.
Express Interest →Our fundraising for the Nepal housing project is taking place through GoFundMe. Any amount you are able to give helps families who lost everything in the floods begin again.
Supporting a local team in Nepal as they help families rebuild safe shelter after the flash floods.
Donate on GoFundMe →To discuss other ways of giving, write to Maitreya@MaitreyaBuddha.com. We acknowledge every gift personally.
The Foundation is how the teaching moves beyond the individual and into the world. It begins with one community and one shared purpose. Thank you for being part of the beginning.