Karuna-Shechen provides medical services and health education to individuals and families through clinics, and mobile outreach programs. The people we serve live in remote nomad regions of Eastern Tibet, the outskirts and slums of Kathmandu, and in rural villages in India and Nepal. All of them belong to communities in great need of services.
“If humanitarian organizations developed more preventative health initiatives, there would be 30% less disease.” (WHO)
Menstrual hygiene is one of the most important, yet neglected, health issues in the developing world. In India, approximately 70%…
Karuna-Shechen has built and/or supports numerous clinics in Eastern Tibet that provide allopathic and Tibetan medicine. We also fund…
In India, Shechen Medical Center, Mobile Clinics and Camps provide medical care for more than 90,000 people a year.…
Many elderly people in Tibet and Nepal are destitute, without families, living alone in harsh conditions. In Nepal, the…
In Nepal, Karuna-Shechen is creating sustainable ways to provide fundamental medical services to the under-served through the Shechen Clinic…
It is estimated that 25% of Nepali women suffer from Uterine Prolapse, or Pelvic Organ Prolapse (POP), a condition…
April 24 2019
When two major earthquakes struck Nepal in April and May of 2015, Karuna-Shechen worked tirelessly to help the victims. We had already been working for 15 years to relieve suffering for people in Nepa...
April 24 2019
On April 28 and May 12, 2015, two major earthquakes struck Nepal, killing over 8,000 people and injuring 22,000 more. Many villages, schools, and essential infrastructure were completely destroyed or ...
April 24 2019
When two major earthquakes struck Nepal in April and May of 2015, Karuna-Shechen already had a long history of humanitarian activities in the region and had been working for 15 years to relieve suffer...
April 24 2019
In keeping with our mission to help the most vulnerable people, Karuna-Shechen created a strategy to address the needs of the communities that were left out of post-earthquake humanitarian and develop...
April 24 2019
Four years after two major earthquakes struck Nepal, Karuna-Shechen is still working in affected areas to reduce suffering and build resilience among villagers. Thanks to the tenacity and dedication o...
