Bodhicitta Foundation
Basics
KALYANAMITRA means spiritual friend. The Kalyanamitra fund is a socially
engaged, grass roots Buddhist charity and spiritual group that embodies the
Buddhist principles of peace, compassion and equality to try and transform
individuals and society, to remove the roots of suffering and offer help to some of the most oppressed people in the world. The Fund was established in 2002.
Social Work in India
- Counseling for poor and traumatized people / drug and alcohol / domestic
violence victims
- Sponsorship for poor children to go to school
- Free English classes for slum people (to help them get jobs and enhance their
humanity and access to information)
- Sponsorship for poor young people to go to university
- Accompanying poor and uneducated people to hospital and assisting with the cost
of healthcare
- Women's empowerment through skills and psychological development
- Job training/placement
- Help with basic housing
- Spiritual teachings and meditation (which are very much needed in the often dark and oppressive environments of slums)
- Youth groups (to uplift youth, help them deal with depression, anger management, study pressure and help them grow into ethical and compassionate adults)
- Sunday schools for small slum children
- Sponsorship for monks and nuns
In the West
- Western monks and nuns sponsorship and dialogue programme
- Counselling and Dharma teaching in the West by donation
- Visiting Jails/hospitals and teaching meditation
- Teaching Dharma/meditation in Drug and Alcohol rehab Centres (when
volunteers are available)
We hope to create a monastery/ Dharma Centre in India that will be a focus for all
of this work. Currently we can only afford small and inadequate premises.
