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With a grateful heart, each day presents a fresh opportunity to demonstrate filial piety
With creativity and gentle guidance, children were taught to express their sincere gratitude and love to their parents.
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Tzu Chi Celebrates early Deepavali with Indian Care Recipients
To bring joy to Tzu Chi’s Indian care recipients, volunteers delivered festive gift packs to them and celebrated Deepavali with them via zoom. Tiya, a Tzu Chi care recipient, said: "This event is so full of love. I feel great to be able to participate in it!"
Tzu Chi Hosts the Last Plant-based Party of 2022
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...
Co-working Space Serves as Platform to Foster Mutual Support
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 . . .
Tzu Chi Flag Day 2022 Receives Overwhelming Response from the Crowd
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.
Elderly Patients Enjoy Better Life Quality with the Renal Conservative Care Programme
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.
Tzu Chi Preschool Celebrates Teachers’ Day with Tea Ceremonies
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.
A Teacher-Student Relationship that Blossomed into Lifelong Friendship
"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.
Tonic for Seniors’ Body and Mind
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.
Migrant Workers Share about their Life through Storytelling at “Do You See Me?”
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.
Brain Injury Survivor Finds Joy in Supporting Seniors through His Work
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 . . .
Local Actress Finds Inner Peace in being a Vegetarian
"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.
A Farewell Ceremony, Two Years and Seven Months Late
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.
Tzu Shao Enjoys the Embrace of Nature
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.
Students Share Their Inner Thoughts and Grow through Art Therapy
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.
Nurturing Compassion through Introducing Vegetarianism to Children at a Tender Age
"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.
Integrating Tzu Chi’s Philosophy into Corporate Culture
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.
Youth Volunteers Working as Public Healthcare Nurses Acknowledge Tzu Chi’s Support during Pandemic
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.
A Unique Bonding Experience Involving Three Generations
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.
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