News & Stories
Teachers Learn and Share on Jing Si Aphorisms
Starting from 2013, Singapore Tzu Chi Foundation’s Education mission will hold regular sharing session on Jing Si Aphorisms Teaching for local teachers to exchange ideas, inspire and encourage each other. On March 16, 20 teachers and 25 volunteers had a...
Twenty Years of Incessant Care for a Respectable Centenarian Grandma
105 year old grandma Xinjing has been a care recipient of Tzu Chi Singapore branch for record period of time. To date, Tzu Chi volunteers continue to visit grandma regularly to shower her with care and concern. And whenever the...
Bringing Festive Cheer Through Spring Cleaning and A Reunion Hotpot
The Chinese traditionally welcome the Lunar New Year by engaging in the integral activities of spring cleaning and gathering around the hotpot for a meal together. This year, as a result of the combined efforts of Tzu Chi volunteers, Madam...
Savouring the Sweetness of Handmade Cakes Made by Medical Professionals
During the 2013 Tzu Chi Singapore Chinese New Year Charity Bazaar event, TIMA members not only manned medical stations which provided basic health screening service, they also sold handmade eggless vegetarian cakes. These came in the form of charming little...
No White Spaces in Art for Charity
Stroke by stroke, Mickey Mouse, a goldfish and bamboo plants took shape under the brushstrokes of Tzu Chi volunteer Ong Soh Chin. Meticulously painting on the charming designs, Soh Chin, together with her teacher and fellow students from the Chinese...
Tzu Chi Singapore Branch Chinese New Year Charity Fair
On Jan 26th & 27th, 2013, Tzu Chi Singapore Branch held a Chinese New Year Charity Fair to gather funds for charity, cultivate good deeds for a year of peace and harmony.
Water Repentance Sutra Adaptation – Real Life Story of Chen Ming Fu’s Family
The Chen family’s affinity with Tzu Chi began some eight years ago, when their son, Chen Guan Zheng contracted leukaemia. With his subsequent passing, the unwavering support and concern of Tzu Chi volunteers touched them greatly, and they slowly began...
Purging Greed, Ridding Vices——Living The Sutras: Cai Jiuan Hua
To sow the seeds of ridding greed and desire…” The young Cai Jiuan Hua contemplates the depth of these words as he recalls his ordeal when he slipped into the abyss of gambling. Having deeply repented, Jiuan Hua stopped participating...
Ushering into the New Year with Tzu Chi Musical & Sign Language adaptation of the “Water Repentance Sutra”
On 12 and 13 Jan 2013, Tzu Chi Singapore Branch held 4 sessions of the Year End Blessing Ceremonies at Kallang Theatre with a Musical & Sign Language adaptation of the “Water Repentance Sutra” as its main theme. This is...
A Hail to Life—How an Eighteen Year Old Young Man Makes His Life Fulfilling
18 year old Rakin has to learn to control his food intake to minimize his medicine intake frequency due to his family’s tight financial situation. He was born with ventricular septal defect (hole in the heart), and later on developed...
Singapore Tzu Chi Seeds of Hope Bursary Presentation Ceremony 2012
On 15 and 16 December 2012, more than a thousand students under Tzu Chi Seeds of Hope (SOH) bursary programme received blessings from their teachers, parents and Tzu Chi volunteers during the four sessions of SOH Bursary Presentation Ceremony held...
Gratitude and Teamwork – Tzu Chings Promoting Vegetarianism
The stage curtains have fallen for the second season of the VERO campaign. In order to show their token of appreciation to everyone involved, the VERO committee held a warm appreciation tea at the Tzu Chi Singapore Free Clinic on...