News about Charity

2,400 families from barangays Ibona, Umiray, Paltic, and Matawe in Dingalan, Aurora received rice and cash assistance from Tzu Chi’s Typhoon Karding response.

On September 29, a few days after Super Typhoon Karding pummeled parts of Quezon and Aurora provinces, a team of Tzu Chi volunteers traveled from Manila to Dingalan, Aurora, to survey for damages. Hundreds of homes and livelihoods were destroyed beyond repair, and as residents try to make sense of the devastation and loss, they take comfort in the compassion shown to them by the visitors in blue and white.

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In a recent visit to Brgy. Pulpogan, Consolacion, Cebu, new college scholars got acquainted with Tzu Chi volunteers from Manila and shared with them their inspiration to get a college degree. Through Tzu Chi's educational assistance program, these scholars hope to break the cycle of poverty that runs in their family, hoping to become a productive member of society.

With the recent launching of Tzu Chi's college scholarship program in Iloilo, volunteers conducted home visits to qualified applicants from several towns in the province. Grateful for the rare opportunity, the students shared their backgrounds and their motivations to finish school as well as their hopes for a brighter future—for themselves and their families.

Tzu Chi facilitated a man’s brain surgery, then granted a scholarship to his granddaughter.

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251 homes in 11 barangays were completely damaged by the storm

Tzu Chi Cebu volunteers has started conducting community-based humanities classes. Inspired by their learnings, students from Babag National High School painted their school walls with Jing Si Aphorisms, hoping to share the dharma with more people in their school and community.