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

own communities, and by supporting them with food, funding, and
administrative support. This included Food for Work programs, through
which nearly four thousand participants received hot meals for cleaning
their own neighborhoods, as well as a temporary school begun in
March 2010, which later grew into long-term tuition support, tutoring,
hot meals, and family visits through the Happy Campus Program.
As time passed, Tzu Chi rebuilt three Catholic schools, which opened
in 2013, as well as a preschool and kindergarten. Local volunteers
began tending a moringa orchard in 2011 and educating locals about
moringa—a nutritious, drought-tolerant plant that offers solutions to
malnutrition and deforestation. Local volunteers also began to regularly
provide individual care to the needy, distribute rice, and hold medical
outreach events. Their example in turn has inspired a new group of
volunteers in Cap-Haïtien, six hours to the north, which first held relief
distributions for flood survivors at the end of 2012.

Thanks to the tireless dedication of compassionate Tzu Chi
volunteers, not only did tens of thousands of earthquake survivors
receive the material and medical relief they needed in the wake
of disaster, but many were also inspired by the compassion they
experienced to become volunteers themselves and thus continue the
cycle of love by serving others in their communities. Just as the seeds of
love were planted and began to sprout in the United States, so too they
are sprouting in Haiti.

Earthquake relief also included
much needed medical care.

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