In tandem with Trybe Limited, Tzu Chi Humanistic Youth Centre organised the six-week Lens of Identity programme, which encourages youths to utilise photography as a medium to explore various career pathways. The programme culminated in a photography exhibition, where the participants showcased their works to the public. The programme is powered by National Youth Council.
With a rise in mental health issues among the youth in recent years, art therapy has emerged as one of the more popular activities in tackling this growing societal problem. To enhance the social-emotional well-being and social skills of primary school students, Tzu Chi Humanistic Youth Centre (HYC) launched an after-school programme titled “Kidz Hideout” in early 2022, including art therapy as one of its key activities.
"Eating meat is not good for our health! If we ate the mother chicken, the chicks will have no mother and they will be very scared!" On this day, two children who have been vegetarians since birth courageously stood on the stage to advocate vegetarianism and appeal to all to love all living beings.
Besides making profits, can a corporate become a place that encourages spiritual growth? An entrepreneur, Teo Siew Leng, hoped to make her laundry factory a platform to gather good thoughts and spread kindness by saving energy and reducing carbon emissions, promoting a plant-based diet, and introducing Tzu Chi to more people.
With the easing of most pandemic restrictions, the light at the end of the tunnel has become brighter as Singapore has seemingly started to turn the corner in its COVID-19 battle. We take a look at how three Tzu Chi volunteers, who are nurses in their day jobs, have coped in their line of work over the past two years. They also shared about the integral role that Tzu Chi has played in supporting them.
Tzu Chi Great Love PreSchool (Yishun) places great emphasis on children’s character development and organises the Parents Appreciation Day event every year. At the home of six-year-old Li Junyi, not only did he involve three generations of his family members in the Parents Appreciation Day ceremony this year, he even included his preschool teacher and his domestic helper, who has been taking great care of him since he was little.
How much do you know about the basic etiquette when it comes to visiting the underprivileged at their homes? To encourage more people to participate in charity home visits, an “Introductory Course on Conducting Home Visits” was specially organised to equip interested public members with the essential guidelines for conducting Tzu Chi’s charity home visits. Through observations during actual assignments, public members are ushered toward a journey of compassion and giving.
The CASA-MODAL (Clean And Screen All Mouths Of Disability And Long-term care facilities) project was started in November 2018 with a noble mission of connecting disability and long-term care facilities to accessible dental services. However, over the past two years, the pandemic has thrown up several obstacles . . .
In recent activities for Parents Appreciation Day in Tzu Chi Great Love Preschool (Yishun), young children learned to bake cookies, make cards, serve tea, and bathe feet. Besides creating a heart-warming interaction between parents and children, it was to guide children to be grateful and express their love bravely.
“Electrifyingly surprising and powerful” was what Chee Chen Sin felt when his children bathed his feet and massaged him. Elated and touched beyond words, he could only convey his gratitude with a warm hug for his children. Adding on, he mentioned that opportunities like these are hard to come by.
No words can describe the pain of mourning for the loss of a loved one. For 78-year-old elderly Tan Meng How, painting is an outlet for him to pour the grief of losing his spouse. To promote awareness of how creative arts can provide strength to walk someone out of the shadow of death, Tzu Chi Humanistic Youth Centre jointly held an art exhibition with “Grief Matters” under a social service programme to bring arts into the community.
This is the story of Mr Ng Chye Hock and his family and their steadfast resilience to overcome adversity. Behind this family's remarkable story is a miracle of love and embodiment of the care and blessings of many people.
“I have a tiny wish. I wish for everyone to experience and get in touch with different life forms in person, not through presentations on plates.” Liu Ling Ling, a celebrated artiste in Singapore, conveyed her love for and attitude towards animal conservation through a song performance where she performed alongside a group of young animal lovers.
As the saying goes: "Life only begins at 70". It is best used to describe veteran volunteer Ng Kok Leong. Although he only joined Tzu Chi at the age of 67 and became certified as a Tzu Chi commissioner at the age of 72, Ng Kok Leong did not waste his time and life. Instead, he spent the remaining of his life volunteering with Tzu Chi and seized every opportunity to care for those in need and set a good example for other volunteers.
Since the opening of the Seniors Engagement and Enabling Node (SEEN) centres in 2019, they have served as crucial pillars of support for many seniors living in the community, helping to provide joy and care in their lives. Beyond this, the centres have also been actively supporting various seniors’ research projects . . .
It’s easier to convince people to do good deeds than to adopt a vegetarian diet. Lim Wah Chun’s secret to effectively advocate vegetarianism is to create vegetarian-friendly circles by serving one meal at a time.
What were players from 10 to 61 years old vying for on the same field? For the first time in the history of Tzu Chi, environmental protection and disaster prevention were promoted through an e-sports competition.
Education, Env. Protection, Miscellaneous Tzu-Chi Foundation
Tzu Chi Foundation (Singapore), in collaboration with Red Cross Singapore, organised the first community blood donation drive for 2022 at Jing Si Hall in Pasir Ris on March 26, 2022. The event attracted 125 people to register as blood donors and raised 100 bags of blood.
Lakeside Family Medicine Clinic may not be on the front line battling the pandemic like hospitals, but it has put up a strong defence in this fight for the past two years. It has undertaken the tasks of triage, assessment and referral, as well as long-term care of elderly patients with chronic diseases. To the best of its ability, it has supported Singapore in its endeavour to ensure that its healthcare system is not overwhelmed.
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