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…
May 6 2022
We believe that education is a tool for development, which should also help everyone to cultivate their inner qualities. Indeed, Early Childhood Development (ECD) is a major axis of intervention for K...
April 28 2022
This year, all the donations collected by Action For Karuna finance our food security program in India which supports more than 53,000 families: organic vegetable gardens, fruit trees, drip irrigati...
April 19 2022
"When altruists join forces, they can generate a tremendous power for good. (...) Everyone can mobilize in his or her own way and cultivate an altruistic state of mind to become a link in the immense ...
March 31 2022
Since June 2021, Karuna-Shechen has been supporting Calcutta Rescue in its intervention in the slums of Nonadanga and Canal West, in Calcutta, India. This sister association was created by Dr. Jack P...
March 14 2022
"In this current era, we face many challenges. One of our main problems is to reconcile the demands of the economy, the pursuit of happiness and respect for the environment. These imperatives corresp...
