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

unit on living a simple life. At the same time, Mission from Taiwan, including the president
they started the Send Love to Haiti project, of Tzu Chi University, visited Tzu Chi USA
encouraging students across the country to Headquarters to hold a national humanistic
donate stationery and write personal cards to education camp and plant seeds of Tzu Chi’s
students in Haiti. community education in the United States.
In recent years, Tzu Chi has also started Since then, various Tzu Chi offices throughout
providing community education courses, the country have been holding a wide variety
following Dharma Master Cheng Yen’s belief of community education courses, including
that “education should exist not only in school parent-children classes, calligraphy, vegetarian
classrooms, but should be widely spread to cooking, and much more. Through these classes,
every corner of society. The guiding principle of they give community members an opportunity
forming Tzu Chi’s community education center for lifelong learning and a chance to delve
is to spread good seeds in the field in every deeper into Tzu Chi’s humanistic spirit of truth,
person’s heart.” goodness, and beauty. Students can then share
this spirit with their families and friends, as they
In summer 2006, a team of thirty-eight enjoy a happier, healthier life.
experienced members of Tzu Chi’s Education

At Hawaii Tzu Chi Academy, vegetarian cooking provides
a lesson in compassion and environmental awareness.

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