The Kharma Foundation

"where good people make a difference..."

Here The Quick Link to the CHRISTMAS ACTION 2011 to Baan Mae Gon

Welcome to the website of “the Kharma Foundation”.

This is an ongoing brain child of its founders that has started as a charity where people with golden hearts join in once a year to donate money and find a good cause to donate it to. In the future the company 'the Kharma Foundation' will see the light of day! Check out the history for what we have done so far and the Photo Gallery's for the pics of the events.

For the new comers to the Kharma Foundation, a quick recap:

The Kharma Foundation was started by Martin after health problems which opened the eyes and translated in an urge to do more for the world’s poor and orphaned kids and a wish to do good in general. Something we all want, but sometimes hard to find how out do. He could never got anywhere with out the help of the main supporter, hardest worker and co-creator Nion.

The first year we showed up as Santa’s at a big orphanage in Bangkok, achieving a Christmas feeling for approx 450 girls in the age of 2 to 18. The kids loved it!! And it was all made possible by a group of kind and social givers that, within a week, gave enough to make 450 smiles possible!

The second year more people got wind of the KF and due to their gifts we were able to go to a big orphanage/temple school in Chang Mai, Wat DonJan. Over 600 kids were living in poverty; for instance the sleeping conditions were bad. In the cold of the northern mountains the kids had to sleep in 3 layers of clothing under an old towel.

The Foundation made it possible for the kids to sleep warm; every kid got a blanket, some clean undies, toys and food.

Last year we went even bigger, not so much in the amount of kids we reached, but with the goal of really helping to improve their lives and health. We travelled from Chang Mai for 5 hours to the mountains near Burma (Myanmar) to help two little schools that are also orphanages for the region. A total of a 100 kids were living of dry rice with chillies every day, had no warm clothes, no sleeping material, and no decent books etc.

We together made it possible for them to eat a healthy variation of food due to a vegetable garden and a small chicken farm, plus a lot of dried and canned food. The Foundation gave them blankets for a good nights rest, but also warm jackets to wear. Besides that we gave school books and school material, but also toys and the much loved outdoor climbing toys and little bicycles etc.

Check out our upcoming activities HERE to see how you can join the Kharma Foundation´s Christmas Action 2010!! All your gifts, help, ideas, support and attention is welcome. So tell your friends and family: together we can move mountains!

We founded our goals and philosophy on the principle of Karma or otherwise spelled Kharma. Definitions of the word Karma vary but all come to a similar view:

Dictionaries:

karma

(The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language)

1. Hinduism & Buddhism. The total effect of a person's actions and conduct during the successive phases of the person's existence, regarded as determining the person's destiny.
2. Fate; destiny.
3. Informal. A distinctive aura, atmosphere, or feeling: There's bad karma around the house today.

 karma

(The Free Dictionary©)

    (kär·ma), in Sanskrit Action. Karma is understood as the consequence of thought and behavior, thus

    providing causal continuity from moment to moment and lifetime to lifetime.

Wikipedia:

Karma (Sanskrit:kárma ), kárman- "act, action, performance"Pali: kamma) is the concept of "action" or "deed" in Indian religions understood as that which causes the entire cycle of cause and effect (i.e., the cycle called sa?sara) originating in ancient India and treated in Hindu, Jain, Sikh and Buddhist philosophies.

The philosophical explanation of karma can differ slightly between traditions, but the general concept is basically the same. Through the law of karma, the effects of all deeds actively create past, present, and future experiences, thus making one responsible for one's own life, and the pain and joy it brings to him/her and others. The results or 'fruits' of actions are called karma-phala.

The key summary in our eyes is that 'your Actions are genuinely effective in the past, present and future of your life and others'. Your actions will effect your joy and pain, but also the joy and pain for others.

With a socially sound view of the world the choice between joy and pain is easy, so we want to focus on the possibilities to bring joy into the life of another world citizen, a Globian, member or the global community.

The company the Kharma Foundation wants to pursue the positive effects our actions can have on the life of children worldwide. Kids too often become victim in a world that is more and more run by money, greed, shortage of food and safety, etc. By earning our own money, we want to put profits to use for helping out. Not just counting on money from others, no, earning the money we want to invest in aid. Of course some events will have donation options, but mostly it will come from hard work by motivated volunteers and staff.

The company will earn money that will be used to fund the foundation; the Kharma Foundation!

The K.F. will try own brands in clothing, parties, charity goals, donations for special occassions, and so on...

Why Kharma and not Karma? Well, that is the easiest of answers. To distinguish ourselves from other companies and brands that use the word Karma correct or incorrect. There is a karmafoundation.com which is a meeting point for successful people; there is a brand karma that creates speakers; and there are a multitude of other karma related sites that deal with the subject or completely off topic subjects.

Kharma is not used much, so the name Kharma Foundation sticks out on the net and on other places. www.kharmafoundation.com will be our online home, where the company, the foundation, the brands and all the other stuff like a community etc. will join forces.

Thank you for visiting us!

-Rest in true Peace my dear friend Niels Nelis Nelson Groeneweg-

-Rest in serene Peace my dear buddy Dan big man Mapstone-