News & Stories
Little Chefs Find Fun in Cooking
While people are spending more time at home amid a pandemic, Tzu Shaos (students of the Tzu Chi Teenagers Class) and their parents are learning how to cook vegetarian dishes at home. Some even made their own tutorial video to...
Coming Together to Make Face Masks for Migrant Workers
Tzu Chi responded to local apparel manufacturer CYC’s face mask donation programme by inviting volunteers to produce tens of thousands of face masks for migrant workers in Singapore.
Volunteers make reusable masks for migrant workers
The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases continues to climb in Singapore, out of which 80% of the infected cases are migrant workers staying in foreign worker dormitories. This latest development of the pandemic has brought uncertainty to the 200,000 migrant...
Overcoming Obstacles to Collect a Donated Bone Marrow from Taiwan Amid the Pandemic
Despite the enforcement of travel restrictions in many countries amid the pandemic, a charter flight from Singapore had flown to Hualien Airport in late April to complete the collection of a rare non-relative donated bone marrow via transit without entry.
Preschool Children Show Their Care to Foreign Workers
Tzu Chi celebrated its 54th anniversary during the circuit breaker period in Singapore. Despite home-based learning, teachers have carefully arranged for courses and games online to let the children understand the unyielding spirit of the dharma masters in Jing Si...
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.