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Charity (2006-2014)
Tzu Chi in the USA
1989 – 2014

reach the individuals in greatest need. These vulnerable local communities. At the same time,
collaborative efforts deeply touched community many recipients were so touched by Tzu Chi’s
members. Many locals, including two mayors, efforts that they chose to go through volunteer
put on Tzu Chi volunteer vests to contribute training and dedicate their time to Tzu Chi,
their time, and nearly eight thousand aid many of them utilizing their language skills to
recipients requested their own bamboo banks help Tzu Chi connect more deeply with some
so that they could help others just as they had of New York’s many immigrant communities.
been helped themselves. Within the storm’s devastation the seeds of
As a new year dawned, the immediate relief positive affinities had been planted.
phase of cash distributions came to an end,
but volunteers continued to care for the most

In the final months of 2012, volunteers held dozens of relief
distributions throughout New York and New Jersey.

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