Because everyone should be able to receive medical care close to home.
Because everyone should be able to access medical care without financial hardship.
Because everyone should be able to make informed decisions about their health.

Yet for many people in India and Nepal, accessing healthcare remains difficult. The clinic may be too far away, the cost of an examination too high, and access to a specialist can sometimes be difficult. And some health problems are not identified in time. These obstacles have real-world consequences: a disease that takes hold, treatment that is interrupted, or a condition that worsens due to a lack of information and follow-up.

👉 Karuna-Shechen addresses these obstacles to make care possible, from prevention to follow-up

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Excerpts from Matthieu Ricard’s book –Altruism (NiL Éditions, 2013) When Social Norms Temper Spontaneous Altruism According to Warneken and Tomasello, in order for altruistic behavior to be maintained over the course of generations, it must be associated with mechanisms that protect individuals against exploitation by each other. The psychologist Dale Hay quotes Machiavelli: “A prince…

Excerpts from Matthieu Ricard’s book –Altruism (NiL Éditions, 2013) “ More recent research from the team of Michael Tomasello and Felix Warneken has shown that very young children spontaneously offered to help an experimenter complete various tasks— ​­bringing the experimenter an object that had fallen to the floor, for instance— ​­and they did so without…