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.
September 17 2018
Together, we’re building an altruistic movement! Please join us to support children and women in need in some of the most remote and underserved villages of northern India, the birthplace of yoga. ...
September 10 2018
Karuna-Shechen is creating many avenues for mindfulness and developmental growth for school children. One example is our intergenerational children’s yoga program that serves over 1,000 primary stud...
September 2 2018
Yoga for Karuna is a collaborative effort, born from the goodwill of a few yoga enthusiasts and expanded to spread a message of kindness and solidarity to build a better world! Ulrika Dezé is a yo...
August 24 2018
Matthieu Ricard shares his best wishes for all the children and adult students returning to school this fall. Each year, your generous donations to Karuna-Shechen improve the learning conditions for t...
August 20 2018
At 2100 meters above sea level in the mountains of Nepal, we’re building an elementary school to provide 80 young children access to a quality education that respects their Sherpa heritage. Const...
