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Hurricane Sandy
Special Report

White House

Honors Tzu Chi

for Sandy Relief Tzu Chi Foundation

Buddhist Tzu Chi Foundation Executive Vice President Debra Boudreaux accepts the recognition on
behalf of Tzu Chi. Photo provided by Greater Washington DC Regional Office

n April 24, 2013, the White House survivors by providing cash cards to those
honored Buddhist Tzu Chi Foundation as affected by the fertilizer plant explosion and
Oa Hurricane Sandy Champion of Change tornadoes in Texas and Oklahoma.
in an event recognizing individuals, businesses,
and organizations directly involved in response Tzu Chi came to the attention of the White
and recovery efforts following Hurricane Sandy. House thanks to Dr. Jannah Scott, Deputy
Director of the Center for Faith-based &
After the hurricane, more than four Neighborhood Partnerships at the Department
thousand Tzu Chi volunteers distributed hot of Homeland Security. Scott has visited Tzu Chi
meals, blankets, and emergency cash cards several times and has seen its medical service
worth nearly ten million dollars to eighteen firsthand. After learning of the relief work which
thousand households, helping more than sixty volunteers undertook after Hurricane Sandy,
thousand people across New York and New she proposed that the White House recognize
Jersey. More recently, in April and May 2013, Tzu Chi.
Tzu Chi volunteers have again helped disaster

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