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Become a volunteer

Tzu Chi volunteers are organized by the community they already live in, so help arrives quickly and neighbors grow together. There is no minimum commitment and no religious requirement.

Start an application Find your nearest office

How it works

  1. Send this form

    Tell us where you are and what you would like to help with.

  2. We call you

    A volunteer coordinator from your nearest office gets in touch, usually within a week.

  3. Join an activity

    Come to a distribution, a clinic day or a recycling session and see the work first hand.

  4. Training, if you wish

    Volunteers who want to commit further take a two-year training program.

Volunteer application

Where would you like to help?

Fields marked * are required. Your details go only to Tzu Chi Philippines volunteer coordinators.

  • What volunteers do

    Volunteers help at relief distributions after typhoons, take vital signs at free clinics, sort recyclables, visit families at home and in hospital, and tutor scholars. Others cook for mission days, drive, translate, write, take photographs and video, or keep the records.

  • Talk to us first

    Call the Buddhist Tzu Chi Campus on 8714-1188 or 0917 860 6609, or visit any of the offices, Monday to Friday, 08:00 to 17:00.

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  • Careers

    Tzu Chi Philippines also employs staff in charity, medicine, education, communications, human resources, general services and IT.

    Work at Tzu Chi Philippines

“Not harming others is but our duty. Having a good heart without doing good things is still equal to doing nothing at all.”
Jing Si Aphorism, Dharma Master Cheng Yen