In 2022, a group of passionate Tzu Chi volunteers came up with the "Super Veggie Super Fun" campaign idea with the hope of reaching out to more people who have not adopted a plant-based diet...
Env. Protection | Tzu-Chi Foundation
The path of social entrepreneurs is known to be one fraught with challenges and obstacles. However, the presence of the co-working space at Tzu Chi Humanistic Youth Centre (HYC) has helped alleviate the difficulties . . .
Humanistic Culture, Miscellaneous | Tzu-Chi Foundation
Tzu Chi resumed its annual Flag Day after suspending the event for two years. On this day, 700 volunteers were mobilised throughout the island to raise funds from the public.
Charity, Miscellaneous | Tzu-Chi Foundation
Are there any other options for advanced chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients besides dialysis? For frail elderly CKD patients who suffer from multiple diseases, choosing conservative care with non-dialysis treatment and spending more time in the community or at home may be their preferred choice.
Medicine | Tzu-Chi Foundation
In conjunction with Teachers’ Day, the children from Tzu Chi Great Love PreSchool expressed their gratitude to their teachers through various actions, like hugging their teachers and presenting thank you cards and gifts to their teachers.
Education | Tzu-Chi Foundation
"Ms Soh is like our second mother!" During a simple and warm Teachers' Day dinner, Lew Zhen Wei and his brother paid tribute to their teacher, Alice Soh Geok Kwee, with whom they shared a 27-year-long teacher-student relationship.
Education | Tzu-Chi Foundation
Gym Tonic at Tzu Chi is more than just physical exercise for the seniors. Through the dedicated efforts of the staff, they have experienced great warmth and even picked up useful learning pointers about life.
Medicine, Humanistic Culture | Tzu-Chi Foundation
These migrant workers are not merely a “foreign workforce” in Singapore, but also individuals with unique stories. Beyond their working hours, they are also dancers, poets and photographers. Every one of them is also someone else’s child, spouse or parent who has their loved ones and aspirations.
Miscellaneous | Tzu-Chi Foundation
What would you do if you were unwittingly involved in a devastating accident that changed the entire course of your life? At the age of 24, after a horrific accident that badly injured his brain, the promising life of Mr Takalah Tan, then a fresh graduate from National University of Singapore (NUS) seemed all but over . . .
Medicine, People | Tzu-Chi Foundation
"I feel that adopting a vegetarian diet is the best choice I have made and the most satisfying thing to do in my life." After 16 years of being a vegetarian, Lin Meijiao, a well-known Singaporean actress, advocated the plant-based diet in public for the first time.
Env. Protection, Miscellaneous | Tzu-Chi Foundation
At the memorial service held at Mandai Crematorium Service Hall, there was no solemn grief full of tears. Instead, it was brimming with a sense of calmness and peace. For the children and grandchildren of the late Tzu Chi volunteer Echo Ong Pei Leng, the day was a “farewell” after two long years.
People, Miscellaneous | Tzu-Chi Foundation
Tzu Chi Teenagers (a.k.a. Tzu Shao) went to Thomson Nature Park for an outdoor experience during the June school holiday. They hiked in the forest, jumped and ran on tree-lined paths during exploration, crossed deep ditches and climbed treetops with excitement and curiosity.
Education | Tzu-Chi Foundation
With a rise in mental health issues among the youth in recent years, art therapy has emerged as one of the more popular activities in tackling this growing societal problem. To enhance the social-emotional well-being and social skills of primary school students, Tzu Chi Humanistic Youth Centre (HYC) launched an after-school programme titled “Kidz Hideout” in early 2022, including art therapy as one of its key activities.
Education | Tzu-Chi Foundation
"Eating meat is not good for our health! If we ate the mother chicken, the chicks will have no mother and they will be very scared!" On this day, two children who have been vegetarians since birth courageously stood on the stage to advocate vegetarianism and appeal to all to love all living beings.
Env. Protection, People | Tzu-Chi Foundation
Besides making profits, can a corporate become a place that encourages spiritual growth? An entrepreneur, Teo Siew Leng, hoped to make her laundry factory a platform to gather good thoughts and spread kindness by saving energy and reducing carbon emissions, promoting a plant-based diet, and introducing Tzu Chi to more people.
Humanistic Culture | Tzu-Chi Foundation
With the easing of most pandemic restrictions, the light at the end of the tunnel has become brighter as Singapore has seemingly started to turn the corner in its COVID-19 battle. We take a look at how three Tzu Chi volunteers, who are nurses in their day jobs, have coped in their line of work over the past two years. They also shared about the integral role that Tzu Chi has played in supporting them.
Medicine, People | Tzu-Chi Foundation
Tzu Chi Great Love PreSchool (Yishun) places great emphasis on children’s character development and organises the Parents Appreciation Day event every year. At the home of six-year-old Li Junyi, not only did he involve three generations of his family members in the Parents Appreciation Day ceremony this year, he even included his preschool teacher and his domestic helper, who has been taking great care of him since he was little.
Education | Tzu-Chi Foundation
How much do you know about the basic etiquette when it comes to visiting the underprivileged at their homes? To encourage more people to participate in charity home visits, an “Introductory Course on Conducting Home Visits” was specially organised to equip interested public members with the essential guidelines for conducting Tzu Chi’s charity home visits. Through observations during actual assignments, public members are ushered toward a journey of compassion and giving.
Charity | Tzu-Chi Foundation
