For 30 years, Tzu Chi’s medical mission in the United States has been calling on professional and non-professional volunteers to provide healthcare services in impoverished areas nationwide and in neighboring Central and South American countries. Tzu Chi USA doctors and volunteers have traveled everywhere, cultivating goodness in communities and bringing medicine and care to underprivileged areas with a relative lack of healthcare resources.

Time flies, it’s already 2024. A few days ago, when I was traveling, I found out that I had contracted COVID-19. I was worried about spreading the disease to others, so I immediately changed my itinerary.