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Twenty Years of

Compassionate Care

Over two decades of compassionately treating patients, Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation
has achieved a great number of significant milestones, including:

10/29/95 – Volunteers from 4/30/00 – Tzu Chi held its
San Jose joined doctors and first medical clinic and bone
nurses from Los Angeles to marrow donor drive in Las
hold the first free clinic at the Vegas, Nevada.
City of Ten Thousand Buddhas
in Northern California’s 1/15/01 – After a 7.6-
Mendocino County. magnitude earthquake in El
Salvador killed eight hundred
2/25/96 – A community health and injured four thousand,
event was held for the first time Tzu Chi volunteers traveled
in San Bernardino, California, there to hold distributions and
with 358 individuals receiving medical clinics.
11/1/93 – Buddhist Tzu Chi Western, Traditional Chinese,
Free Clinic (now Buddhist Tzu and dental treatments. 2/23/02 – Fifteen volunteers
Chi Medical Center) opened in traveled from New Jersey to
Alhambra, California. 8/8/98 – Thanks to the hard Dominican Republic to provide
work of five doctors and ten medical care for more than six
2/5/94 – Volunteer doctors volunteers from Hawaii, two hundred young patients at La
traveled to Santa Clarita, days of medical clinics were Romana Tzu Chi School.
California, to provide free held in American Samoa,
health care, medicine, and helping more than seven 3/2/03 – Buddhist Tzu Chi Free
several days of hot mobile hundred. Clinic held its first free clinic at
showers to people affected by Skid Row in Los Angeles.
the Northridge Earthquake. 8/16/98 –Tzu Chi volunteers
held a week of clinics in 6/1/03 – Tzu Chi volunteers
4/24/94 – Buddhist Tzu seventeen Peruvian villages delivered medical care to
Chi Free Clinic held its first struck especially hard by El migrant farm workers in
community health fair, serving Niño flooding, serving more California’s Central Valley,
more than five hundred than a thousand local residents. serving more than four
patients in Los Angeles and hundred patients in Kerman.
the San Gabriel Valley. 12/5/98 – After Hurricane
Georges devastated the 8/16/03 – Tzu Chi International
12/28/94 – Fourteen Dominican Republic, Tzu Chi Medical Association (TIMA)
volunteers from Los Angeles volunteers provided relief volunteers in Chicago joined
and San Diego traveled to goods to a thousand affected with Warrenville Youth &
Tijuana, Mexico, to provide families, and medical services Family Services to provide Back
winter relief and free medical to nearly as many. to School medical care for local
care to the local poor. students.
4/2/00 – Buddhist Tzu Chi
Free Clinic established Tzu Chi
Cancer Support Group.

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