Dame Judi Dench

Karuna works in India among some of the poorest communities in the world; yet these pages do not confront us with images of dying children and abject poverty. Karuna is more concerned to encourage a positive and thoughtful response rather than a guilty reaction.

Karuna believes that the degradation of others is also our degradation – similarly that the triumph over prejudice and ignorance is a triumph for us all. To support these objectives is not simply a generous response to those most in need – it is also a practical commitment to the long-term needs of the world.

I hope that once you have read these pages and given them careful consideration you will decide, as I have done, to make that commitment.

Yours sincerely

Dame Judi Dench DBE
Patron of the Karuna Trust

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