Global Monastic Support and Health Care

Global Monastic Support

Your donations provide support for the global Plum Village community by covering costs such as immigration fees for monastics coming to the US; technical, educational, training, and communication support for the worldwide monastic community; and administrative expenses.

Monastic Health Care Fund

Unfortunately, in the U.S. many monastics do not qualify for health insurance coverage. Prior to the creation of our Monastic Health Care Fund, monastics often pushed aside their medical needs, feeling that they did not want to take money away from the Sangha.

Now, the Fund helps nearly 100 monastics in the U.S. have enough energy to be able to practice, teach and support the monasteries. These monastics are able to attend regular medical, dental and eye exams, and to receive needed medicines. The Fund also pays for hospital and emergency room visits, blood tests and transfusions, and medical imaging. The Fund makes a particularly enormous impact on the quality of life of monastics with chronic or life-threatening illnesses.

We look forward to a day when all of our monastics have health insurance. Until then, we have a concrete and easy way to take care of their needs. They care for us; now we can care for them.