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)
Many of us think tuberculosis is a disease of the past, but it remains widespread – and life-threatening –…
In India, women and girls make-up 70% of all our health care patients. We pay particular attention to their…
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 approximately 80,000 people a year. Women…
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…
August 7 2017
Please join Karuna-Shechen in making a difference in the lives of children in need today. In Jharkhand, one of the most remote and under-served places in India, children ages 3-6 spend thei...
June 15 2017
Our interactive 2016 Annual Report is now on-line. In 2016, with your support, we treated more than 140,000 patients, provided quality education for 4,700 students, and improved living conditions in t...
June 12 2017
Because of your support, our project “Plant Kitchen Gardens for Families in Need in India,” finished as the #1 project on GlobalGiving’s June Accelerator campaign! Planting a kitchen gar...
May 15 2017
Course des Héros/Race of Heroes takes place annually in Paris, France to benefit various charities. Some heroes apply their “compassion in action” by running (or walking) to support the projec...
May 11 2017
In March, Karuna-Shechen’s co-founder Matthieu Ricard visited our projects in India. First he traveled to Bihar, where we have been working for 17 years, and then he visited our new programs in ...
