See what we will accomplish in 2018 and beyond:
Beneficiaries: 8,500 children
Objective: To give children in isolated rural communities access to quality education and prevent school dropout, especially for girls.
Strategy: Increase access and improve learning conditions for children in remote villages while engaging the entire community in education.
Main Activities in 2018:
– Build an elementary school in the remote Taplejung District (Nepal)
– Support 6 new schools (Nepal)
– Recruit additional teachers for government schools (India and Nepal)
– Distribute desks and school supplies to government schools (Nepal and India)
– Provide support to 100 additional preschools (India)
– Launch an early childhood development initiative in schools (Nepal)
Beneficiaries: 97,000 people
Objective: To save lives and enable marginalized people to live in dignity and in good health.
Strategy: To provide vulnerable and impoverished populations free and comprehensive medical care.
Main Activities in 2018:
– Complete the construction and open a new medical clinic in Jharkhand (India)
– Bring mobile clinics to remote villages and slums (Nepal and India)
– Operate Shechen Medical Clinics in Kathmandu (Nepal), Bodhgaya, and Hata (India)
– Provide hospice care for the elderly (Nepal)
Beneficiaries: 66,550 people
Objective: Prevent diseases, disabilities, and deaths caused by lack of information and poor living conditions in villages.
Strategy: Inform and train villagers on proper nutrition, first aid, and hygiene practices, with a special focus on women and girls.
Main Activities in 2018:
– Organize intensive first-aid and first responder training (Nepal)
– Implement nutrition awareness campaigns (Nepal and India)
– Provide information and screening camps for uterine prolapse (Nepal)
– Create advocacy campaigns on women’s health and hygiene (India and Nepal)
Beneficiaries: 39,000 people
Objective: Increase food security in villages and educate people on the sustainable use of natural resources.
Strategy: Support and encourage the development of local, self-sufficient, and environmentally friendly agriculture in remote villages.
Main Activities in 2018:
– Offer micro loans (0%) to support opportunities for villagers (Nepal)
– Plant organic vegetable kitchen gardens (India and Nepal)
– Distribute seeds and organic seedlings (India and Nepal)
– Create and manage local nurseries (India and Nepal)
– Provide training, particularly to women, on how to cultivate a vegetable garden, manage water resources, produce fertilizers and organic pesticides, and raise farm animals (India and Nepal)
Beneficiaries: 3,000 people (600 families)
Objective: Bring solar electricity to remote villages to improve living conditions.
Strategy: Train village women to install solar lighting systems in rural communities in their region.
Main Activities in 2018:
– Train an additional 12 villagers in solar engineering (Nepal)
– Install 600 solar lighting systems (Nepal)
– Open six workshops for assembly, maintenance, and repair of equipment (Nepal)
Beneficiaries: 22,500 people
Objective: To improve the living conditions and strengthen the resilience of communities, without creating dependence on external assistance.
Strategy: Design projects and development strategies that benefit the whole community and encourage the active participation of all villagers.
Main Activities in 2018:
– Expand our small money, BIG CHANGE program to villages in the state of Jharkhand (India)
– Provide training in emergency relief that will create a task force within communities to deal with natural disasters. (Nepal)
– Help prevent human trafficking in villages (Nepal)
– Strengthen villagers’ involvement in project management and monitoring (India and Nepal)
Beneficiaries: 3,000 women
Objective: To promote the economic empowerment of rural women and enable them to become agents of change in their community.
Strategy: Provide rural women with access to basic education, training, and job opportunities.
Main Activities in 2018:
– Train an additional 10 taxi-rickshaws drivers (India)
– Provide literacy courses for villagers (India and Nepal)
– Organize entrepreneur training for women (India)
– Support the creation of local small businesses (India and Nepal)
– Train 12 new solar technicians (Nepal)
Together in 2018 we will extend the circle of compassion to over 250,000 people and create a more equal, just, and happy world.
March 22 2019
In rural Nepal, remote villages are losing ancestral agricultural methods, including the cultivation of native seeds. As a result, they are facing greater food insecurity and lower overall well-being ...
March 21 2019
Despite improvements, hunger still strikes. In 2015, the United Nations renewed its commitment to ensure a fairer world for all by defining 17 Sustainable Development Goals in its 2030 Agenda. “Zer...
March 20 2019
The Indian government allocates only 1.2% of its GDP to health (compared to 11.8% in France, for example). This extremely low budget seriously impacts the public hospital system, where difficult worki...
March 19 2019
For the rural populations we support in India and Nepal, prevention is the best medicine. Karuna-Shechen focuses on prevention by informing and training villagers on proper nutrition, first aid, and h...
February 28 2019
Women play a key role in reducing poverty and inequality, and creating a more altruistic world. Karuna-Shechen gives Indian and Nepalese women the opportunity to embody that change: for themselves, th...
