What we do

Karuna works in India, where hundreds of millions of people suffer lives of grinding poverty and oppression, excluded from the region’s economic boom.

'Low caste’ and tribal communities struggle as landless day labourers, in constant danger of violence and exploitation, with little or no recourse to the law or police. At best their children receive a few years of substandard schooling. In the teeming cities, such people live in cramped, dirty slum huts, so oppressed by the daily struggle to survive that they can offer little means of escape to their children.

Karuna works with community based organisations that are helping thousands of people to escape the hell of poverty and discrimination and take their rightful place in society.

In this section

Education

Marginalized people remain excluded from mainstream society without access to decent education.

Women's Empowerment

In addition to caste discrimination, Dalit women suffer further marginalisation because of their gender.

Leadership Development

Leadership Development is a new theme for Karuna and we want to enage directly with the issues and opportunities that...

Human Rights

More than a sixth of India's population - nearly 200 million people - live at the bottom of the country's anc...

Mind Change

India today is booming. But behind the facade of prosperous modernity there lurks an ancient social system that place...