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Students of the La Saline community in Haiti are excited when they return to school and see bags of rice from Tzu Chi. Photo/Keziah Jean Written by James Chen, Grace Wong, Keziah Jean Translated by Pen-Chi Liu Edited by Diana Chang, Ida Eva Zielinska In Haiti, a country in the Caribbean, the school summer vacation […]
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Students at a school in the impoverished community of Cité Soleil, in Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, enjoy nutritious cookies made from Tzu Chi’s Multi-Grain Powder. Photo/Keziah Jean Written by Pheel Wang Translated by Diana Chang Edited by Ida Eva Zielinska Many Haitians were already struggling in extreme poverty when the COVID-19 pandemic struck in 2020. What […]
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On August 15, 2020, Tzu Chi USA’s Southern Region chapter held a food distribution, in partnership with Houston Food Bank (HFB, for the third time in two months. Southwest Management District, established by the Texas Legislature, provided security officers to direct traffic and maintain peace.
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Tzu Chi volunteers in Nevada worked with staff members at the Salvation Army to continue serving the homeless population during the pandemic, donating crucial PPE to help lower the number of confirmed cases in the community. While carrying out these preventive actions, volunteers also spoke about Tzu Chi’s environmental missions and the Very Veggie Movement.
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In June 2017, Tzu Chi USA launched a food distribution program in the City of Huntington Park, California. Many families would come to Miles Ave Elementary School to pick up fresh produce and dry goods every month. And yet, everything changed in March 2020, when as COVID-19 spread nationwide, the school closed, and distributions were temporarily suspended.