News about Charity

The program impacts both students and their families

Master Cheng Yen calls it “the most rewarding thing in life”

Each family received 20 kg of rice and various food and non-food grocery items.

The Tzu Chi Foundation expands its scholarship program to Iloilo to help more students attain their dream for a better life.

Tzu Chi’s university partners signed pledge of support in its very first tea party.

Tzu Chi Philippines celebrated its 28th year last November 13 with a solemn 3 steps and 1 bow ceremony on the grounds of the Buddhist Tzu Chi Campus (BTCC) in Sta. Mesa, Manila. The milestone was also commemorated with a photo exhibit at BTCC’s Jing Si Hall. The exhibit featured 96 large-format images of Tzu Chi volunteers engaged in the foundation’s missions of charity, medical assistance, education, and disaster relief.

Scholars learn Tzu Chi’s Ten Precepts in face-to-face humanities class in BTCC.

190 houses were destroyed and 23 lives were lost in a landslide in Brgy. Kusiong, Datu Odin Sinsuat.

Countless lives have been touched by the compassion and relief offered by Tzu Chi Foundation in its 28 years in the Philippines. This year alone, Tzu Chi’s medical assistance program has expanded to include life-saving heart procedures like the angioplasty performed by Dr. Kent Tan on patient Renato Santos. Tzu Chi’s mission of education has also blossomed, with the launch of the Tzu Chi Great Love Preschool Philippines, and the growing number of Tzu Chi scholars from Metro Manila, Bicol, Cebu, Bohol, Iloilo, Leyte, and Zamboanga. Meanwhile, it resumed its commitment to protect Mother Nature (and provide livelihood) with its upcycling program using excess sport sock material to create beautiful floor mats and stool covers, and its banana tree-planting initiative with Davao del Norte’s Ata Manobo tribe.

867 families in eight evacuation centers in Zamboanga City received rice and other relief goods from Tzu Chi.