Tzu Chi volunteers help cleaning up the campusIn the Philippines, the government has announced that schools will open on the 13th of September. A senior high school in Ormoc has invited Tzu Chi volunteers and Tzu Chings to clean the campus before school starts.
Tzu Chi increases aid for long-term beneficiariesVolunteers and recipients of Tzu Chi’s medical assistance receive the first of three tranches of rice and foodstuff.
Inspired by Tzu Chi, a former scholar embraces volunteerismFor community pantry and kitchen organizer Ronnel Ojas, age shouldn’t stop you from making a difference in your community.
Unable to work in ECQ, blind massage therapists receive rice, groceries183 beneficiaries from 16 blind massage therapy groups welcome the generous relief goods from Tzu Chi.
Typhoon Haiyan survivor finds meaning and purpose in baking breadA fortuitous encounter after a super storm leads Leyteño Adrian Neil Ang to practice his passion for baking in Manila.
Tzu Chi Palo organizes four-day relief distribution for 534 familiesRice and groceries were distributed to locals from Leyte affected by the strict lockdowns.
In the spirit of bayanihan, Caloocan South beneficiaries share their blessingsCaloocan South’s tricycle drivers divide relief goods among themselves; jeepney drivers donate a pledge to their fellow public utility drivers.
At Caloocan South, driving a tricycle is a woman’s job tooThree female drivers explain how the humble source of living has helped raise their respective families.
Tzu Chi extends rice, grocery relief to Zamboanga, Jolo, SuluIn Zamboanga City, a targeted 4,711 jeepney drivers, tricycle drivers, tricycad drivers, van drivers, and boatmen ferrying tourists from the city to Santa Cruz Island were the recipients of rice and grocery items from Tzu Chi’s Zamboanga chapter. On July 22, 27, 29, and 31, Tzu Chi volunteers set up a distribution area at the seafront parkway Paseo del Mar, where each beneficiary went home with two 10-kg sacks of rice and a grocery pack containing two packs of 300g spaghetti noodles, two packs of 300g spaghetti sauce, soy sauce, vinegar, cooking oil, salt, refined sugar, bath soap, and detergent bar.
Caloocan tricycle drivers receive—and give—in the first of three relief goods distributionsDave Puno was picking leaves from a malunggay tree at the back of his family’s home in Caloocan, when the riprap he was standing on suddenly collapsed. “I should have been dead,” he says, “because I nearly landed on my head.” Instead, he fell on his left arm, breaking it and his lower right foot in the process. Puno has been on a wait list for surgery for four months and counting.
