News & Stories
Fabric Masks Making for Migrant Workers (2020)
During the circuit breaker period, volunteers work hard to overcome logistical and transportation challenges to send the fabric for mask making to the volunteers and later collect the completed fabric masks from the volunteers' home to be delivered to Migrant...
A Joint Effort to Provide Laptops for Students from Low Income Families
Tzu Chi Singapore has partnered with several organisations to launch a fundraising campaign to provide laptops and Chromebooks for students from low income families and upgrade their wifi so that they can study without disruption at home.
Embracing a healthier life through vegetarianism
Pan Han Ni, a home care service nurse at the Tzu Chi Lakeside Family Medical Centre in Singapore, became a vegetarian when she was studying in secondary school after watching a video titled “Meet you Meat” during a Tzu Shao...
Tzu Chi distributes handmade fabric mask cover to the community
Tzu Chi Humanistic Youth Centre in Singapore has initiated a charity project to make and distribute face mask covers made of cloth to the public, hoping to reduce the use of surgical masks. As soon as the activity was launched,...
Volunteers Make Fabric Face Mask Covers for the Community
Besides working from home and taking care of household matters during the circuit breaker period, volunteers spent their spare time sewing face mask covers, making full use of their skills to contribute to the society.
Tzu Chi renders urgent help to foreign workers stranded in Singapore
As COVID-19 cases continues to rise in Malaysia and Singapore, both countries have consecutively stepped up their preventive measures with the aim to flatten the curve. As a result, many Malaysian workers in Singapore who travel daily between Singapore and...
A Doctor Spares No Effort in Conserving the Environment
There are more to environmental conservation than just recycling and reducing plastic wastes. A detailed sharing by Dr. Ho Eu Chin has enlightened us on how much of wastage could be avoided in our daily lives.
Preschool children pay tribute to COVID-19 frontliners
Amid the spreading of COVID-19, little children at Tzu Chi Great Love PreSchool are aware of the hard work of the frontline workers. Despite not being able to go out to personally send their blessings to the frontline workers, they...
Singapore launches “circuit breaker” to minimize spread of COVID-19
To curb the spreading of COVID-19, the Singapore government has launched a stricter social distancing measure which starts from 7 April 7 to 4 May, also known as the “circuit breaker”. Essential businesses will continue to operate even when schools...
Tzu Chi volunteers as Clean Ambassadors before the start of “circuit breaker”
Tzu Chi Singapore was invited by the NEA to take on the role of SG Clean Ambassadors to help promote and encourage the public to bring their own food containers for takeaways, reduce outings and maintain social distancing during CB...
Going meatless as a form of social responsibility
The worsening of the COVID-19 pandemic in mid-March 2020 had resulted in many countries implementing border closures and movement restrictions to better control the movement of people. Staying home may be an effective way to flatten the curve of the...
Sending Warmth to Stranded Workers from Malaysia
Tzu Chi volunteers visited several HDB blocks in search of stranded Malaysian foreign workers to hand out some daily supplies and offer comfort.