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Children learn the joy of giving in Raleigh, North Carolina.

and morals. In 2003, Tzu Chi’s Education Mission became increasingly important, so the Mission
took a further step by incorporating Tzu Chi’s of Humanistic Culture shifted its longstanding
humanistic culture as an official class, while focus on Chinese-language materials to begin
also painstakingly developing materials and promoting an English-language website and
methods to encourage children to live out Jing English-language magazine. From this point
Si Aphorisms in their daily lives and cultivate forward, all materials were developed in both
habits of showing love and respect to others. All Chinese and English, with some in Spanish as
across the country, Tzu Chi Academies started well. The Tzu Chi USA Translation Team also
promoting “Return to the Bamboo Bank Era,” started adding English-language subtitles to
encouraging young students to save a small Master Cheng Yen’s daily program Life Wisdom
amount of change each day in order to make on Da Ai Television, so that English-speaking
a major difference. The Missions of Education viewers could also take in Tzu Chi’s Dharma
and Charity collaborated on the “Send Love spirit.
to South Africa” project, motivating Academy Following the development of their
teachers, parents, and students to gather books respective missions, the Education Foundation
and stationery for underprivileged students in and Medical Foundation were established in
South Africa, with the intention of activating the 2004 and 2005, respectively, carrying Tzu Chi to
goodness and love already within the children another major milestone.
while cultivating positive moral examples.
As Tzu Chi drew closer to surrounding com-
munities, having English-language materials

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