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International (1997-2005)
Tzu Chi in the USA
1989 – 2014

Volunteers provide relief in Honduras in 1999.

while providing medical care for a thousand put together a small team that traveled twice
people. Volunteers also traveled to Tegucigalpa, to Bogotá to conduct disaster assessment. In
Honduras, and delivered items to help improve February, more than four dozen volunteers from
sanitation and health in the flooded areas. the United States, Taiwan, and Argentina again

In late January 1999, as the relief effort visited Colombia to carry out relief distributions.
still carried on in Central America, a major Through distributions in three communities,
earthquake in Colombia killed nearly two they gave out 8,700 portions of food, enough
thousand people. Following Dharma Master to feed each recipient for two months, and also
Cheng Yen’s instruction, Stephen Huang, who provided medical care for 650 individuals.
was already in Central America for disaster relief,
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