Karuna-Shechen celebrates 25 years dedicated to community

Since its creation, the association has been committed to reducing poverty and enabling the most vulnerable women, men and children to express their full potential. But Karuna-Shechen is not just the story of one organization, but of an initiative driven by thousands of people – donors, volunteers, employees, partners and people supported – united by a common vision.

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This year, we are delighted to be celebrating 25 years of Karuna-Shechen. It’s an opportunity to look back at this great collective adventure. We are guided by altruism, commitment, and solidarity as we take concrete actions together with our many communities. I’ve been lucky enough to live in the Himalayas for over fifty years. For…

The need for altruistic cooperation is  more acute today as we face major socio-economic and ecological disasters.  These issues generate confusion and seemingly complex questions, but in the end it’s a simple question of altruism versus egoism, at both individual and collective levels. Cooperation can be based on a generalized reciprocity guided by the promotion…

This is an extract from Matthieu Ricard’s book Altruism, Little, Brown and Company editions We need a unifying concept, an Ariadne thread that will allow us to find our way in this labyrinth of serious, complex preoccupations. Altruism is this thread that will allow us naturally to connect the three scales of time— short-, middle-,…