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Providing Disaster Relief
To support the global Tzu Chi community’s disaster relief effort in response to the magnitude 7.8 earthquake in Turkey on February 6, 2023, Tzu Chi USA launches its urgent Turkey Earthquake Relief fundraiser on February 8, with matching donations up to one million USD. Photo/Tzu Chi USA Website
On February 4, 2023, Tzu Chi USA Southern Region volunteers provide disaster aid to 42 families (comprising 123 individuals) in Texas impacted by a rare winter tornado on January 24. The twister had ripped through the Houston suburbs of Pasadena and Deer Park, causing extensive damages. Photo/Jong Wu
After earthquakes strike Turkey and the surrounding region in February, killing more than 50,000 people, Tzu Chi Relief volunteers arrive on the ground to provide emergency aid. They distribute blankets and scarves for survivors to stay warm, as well as supermarket shopping cards (valued at more than $2.48 million in total). Photo/Tzu Chi USA Website
Supporting Community and Interfaith Collaboration
On February 8, Tzu Chi USA National Headquarters in California hosts the 2023 Housing Summit of the San Gabriel Valley Consortium on Homelessness, where representatives from Los Angeles County, San Gabriel Valley housing and welfare departments, experts, scholars, and nonprofits can learn about housing needs, and generate solutions and means of making affordable housing available. Photo/James Huang
The Tzu Chi Center for Compassionate Relief in New York hosts a gathering on February 9, 2023,to mark United Nations observed annual World Interfaith Harmony Week and bring together spiritual and institutional leaders who address refugee, migrant, and asylum-seeker challenges, aiming to collaboratively strengthen the collective response to the needs of the displaced. Photo/En Pu K
Representatives of IsraAID and ADRA (Adventist Development and Relief Agency), two organizations that signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Tzu Chi regarding aid for Ukrainians, visit Tzu Chi USA National Headquarters in San Dimas, California, on February 24, 2023, the first anniversary of the Russia-Ukraine War. They discuss international aid challenges and current earthquake relief in Turkey. Photo/Jennifer Chien
On February 26, 2023, the Mayor of New York City, Eric Adams, visits the Tzu Chi Vision Mobile Clinic stationed at the NYPD Community Center in Brooklyn. The free vision care clinic was offering free eye exams and prescription glasses for disadvantaged students and families, an ongoing program of the Tzu Chi USA Northeast Region in the New York metropolitan area. Photo/Hui Liu
At the invitation of Shelyn Elementary School in Rowland Heights, California, on December 7, 2022, the Tzu Chi USA National Headquarters Region’s education team visits the school’s Recycle Club to teach the importance of environmental stewardship. Photo/Ziwen Wang
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