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(4) Tzu Chi works together with other international Red Cross:
charity organizations to help people in need of aid. ■ Poverty and disaster relief in Vietnam, since 1998

Examples: ■ 9/11 attacks, 2001 (along with Salvation Army)
MDM (Médecins du Monde, or Doctors of the World): ■ Hurricane Katrina, 2005 (along with FEMA)
■ War victims of Ethiopia, 1993 ■ Hurricane Sandy, 2012

■ War victims of Rwanda, 1994 CARE (Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere):
■ Gujarat earthquake in India, 2001
Healey International Relief Foundation
Volunteers of MDM
and Tzu Chi worked and Caritas Freetown Foundation:
together to provide ■ Ebola epidemic in Sierra Leone, 2015-2016
medical care to chil-
dren orphaned in
the 1994 genocide in 6-5
Rwanda.
What is Tzu Chi’s cash-for-work relief program?
(Tzu Chi Foundation)
When a disaster strikes, Tzu Chi
will pay those affected and work
■ War victims of Chechnya, 1995 hand-in-hand with them to
■ Homeless children in Ivory Coast, 1996 clean up their own communities
■ Kosovar refugees, 1999 and other disaster areas. As a

Knightsbridge International: form of relief, this program not
■ Quake survivors in Afghanistan, 1998 only brings hope to disaster
survivors by allowing them People affected by flood-
■ Kosovar refugees, 1999 to rebuild their lives with the ing in Santa Ana, Ecuador

■ Afghan refugees, 2001 money they earn, but also helps take part in Tzu Chi’s
cash-for-work program
the affected areas recover sooner to help clean up a local
as a result of collective effort. school. (Zheng Wei-yuan)

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