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Tzu Chi Youth Camp Nurtures Positivity

Tzu Chi Youth Camp Nurtures Positivity

Every one of us have our own dreams, and an image of an ideal world inside our hearts. But how does one realise these dreams? The Tzu Chi Foundation (Singapore) organised a Tzu Chi Collegiate Youth camp from 31 October 2015 to 1 November 2015 for 83 stude

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Volunteers Clean Up the Home of an Elderly Nun

Volunteers Clean Up the Home of an Elderly Nun

72-year-old Venerable Chuan Zhi suffers from Meniere's disease, and has difficulty getting around and taking care of her daily needs. Seeing her plight, Tzu Chi volunteers visited her home on the morning of 25 October 2015, and did a thorough spring clean

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A Collaboration to Commemorate International Day of Older Persons

A Collaboration to Commemorate International Day of Older Persons

To commemorate the International Day of Older Persons, which falls on 1 October, the National Council of Social Service (NCSS) launched a month-long celebration, inviting business organisations and voluntary welfare organisations (VWOs) to support and par

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TIMA Dentists’ Commitment Benefited Over a Hundred

TIMA Dentists’ Commitment Benefited Over a Hundred

Choking back his emotions, TIMA dentist Dr Eugene Tang Kok Weng related, "Having operated the free dental clinic for patients from MINDS (Movement for the Intellectually Disabled of Singapore) for eleven years, we see how these children have grown up. Som

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Student Delegates from Ten Countries Learn About Recycling at Tzu Chi

Student Delegates from Ten Countries Learn About Recycling at Tzu Chi

A number of teachers and a hundred students who were participating in the Round Square International Conference 2015 hosted by the United World College of South East Asia (UWCSEA) visited the Tzu Chi Eco-Awareness Centre on 5 October 2015. Hailing from te

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First Tzu Chi Singapore Flag Day Plants Seeds of Good

First Tzu Chi Singapore Flag Day Plants Seeds of Good

On 26 September, 2015, Tzu Chi Foundation held its very own flag day where it organised its first island-wide street fundraiser for its local charity programmes. Just four days before, on 22 September, the organisation marked its 22nd anniversary...

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A Litter-Free Yellow Ribbon Run

A Litter-Free Yellow Ribbon Run

During the 2015 Yellow Ribbon Prison Run, Tzu Chi was there to promote a clean, litter-free environment and to engage in recycling. Also present were helpers from the waste collection companies who were happy to provide first-level sorting of waste picked

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My Teacher the Good Madam Liu

My Teacher the Good Madam Liu

“Good, good!” Bending over as she raises her thumb, eyes crinkled as she flashes a generous smile—that is the image of teacher Liu Lian Qiu that many people have. Liu is a Chinese language teacher at the Tzu Chi Great Love PreSchool, and the form teacher

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Celebrating SG50 with IMH Patients

Celebrating SG50 with IMH Patients

2015 marks the year that Singapore celebrates 50 years of nation building, and Tzu Chi volunteers who have been making care visits to the Institute of Mental Health (IMH) decided that they would bring some of that celebratory cheer to the patients who are

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Flowers Bring Spiritual Realizations on the Tzu Chi Path

Flowers Bring Spiritual Realizations on the Tzu Chi Path

A self-proclaimed person “born of a good life,” Xue Shu Ru from Taiwan came to Singapore in 2004, accompanying her children who were studying here. In the blink of an eye, 11 years passed by and the seeds she had planted in Tzu Chi Taiwan had...

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Love the Earth, Do Away With Superstitions

Love the Earth, Do Away With Superstitions

From the Buddhist perspective, the seventh lunar month is not the “ghost month”, but rather an auspicious and joyful month where filial piety is also celebrated. From 22 to 23 August 2015, four Auspicious Seventh Lunar Month prayer sessions were held in T

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Training to be Bodhisattvas

Training to be Bodhisattvas

From 7-9 August, 2015, Tzu Chi Singapore held its inaugural retreat for its volunteer cadres at the Jing Si Hall, where the invited speakers included two Dharma Masters and staff members from the Jing Si Abode (Tzu Chi HQ), as well as veteran Tzu Chi vol

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Training to be Bodhisattvas

Training to be Bodhisattvas

From 7-9 August, 2015, Tzu Chi Singapore held its inaugural retreat for its volunteer cadres at the Jing Si Hall, where the invited speakers included two Dharma Masters and staff members from the Jing Si Abode (Tzu Chi HQ), as well as veteran Tzu Chi vol

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Tzu Chi Cadres Rediscover Their Aspirations

Tzu Chi Cadres Rediscover Their Aspirations

Tzu Chi Singapore recently overcame the constraints of space limitations to organize a three-day, two-night retreat for its volunteer cadres. The 315 attendees gained deep insights into the topic of “universal compassion” with the guidance of two Dharma

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Youths Learn That Change Starts From Oneself

Youths Learn That Change Starts From Oneself

On the first day of the Tzu Chi Collegiate Youth training camp held in August 2015, two speakers who had the courage to pursue their dreams shared with 36 camp participants their inspiring life journeys while on the second day, the participants visited th

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Tzu Chi Collegiate Youth Camp Strengthens Spiritual Motivation

Tzu Chi Collegiate Youth Camp Strengthens Spiritual Motivation

Through a series of experiential learning sessions at a two-day, one-night training camp held from 1-2 August, 36 Tzu Chi Singapore collegiate volunteers strengthened their faith, motivation, and drive to walk on the Bodhisattva Path. A group of the camp

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Celebrate SG50 By Supporting a Green Cause

Celebrate SG50 By Supporting a Green Cause

On 25th and 26th July, 2015, when the Fengshan Diamond Residents’ Committee was distributing SG50 fun packs to residents, volunteers from the Tzu Chi Foundation (Singapore) were also present to promote environmental awareness. Over the two-day period, abo

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A Bright Smile Begins with Nice Teeth

A Bright Smile Begins with Nice Teeth

Tzu Chi Singapore has been co-operating with the Agency for Integrated Care (AIC) to provide home-based medical, nursing, and physiotherapy services to residents who are unable to leave their homes for various reasons. After these services were launched i

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