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Moving to Canada, after three months of renovation, the Tzu Chi Surrey Office is finally open to the public. For the past 15 years, Tzu Chi volunteers in Surrey have been carrying out Tzu Chi’s missions throughout the city, such as cooking hot meals for the homeless, providing scholarships for underprivileged students and much more. Now finally having

Also celebrating the Chinese New Year are the Tzu Chi Academies in different areas of the United States and Canada, who organized activities to help students learn something of the Chinese culture and also experience the Lunar New Year festivities. While those at the Tzu Chi Cupertino Academy put on a charity sale, to collect money to help Typhoon Haiyan survivors in the...

In the Greater Vancouver area, in Coquitlam, Canada, due to a large immigrant population, the government has funded trainings at a learning center to improve immigrants’ English. As community service is a part of the program, for the third year this year, recently the teacher brought 17 students to participate in Tzu Chi’s food distribution.

In Canada, Burnaby Tzu Chi volunteers have been providing needy students of the Byrne Creek Secondary School with nutritious breakfasts twice a week. With the encouragement of the school staff, volunteers decided to participate in the Gift Basket Program launched by the school-a program that provides needy families with daily necessities and food.

  Tzu Chi and the Congregation of the Sisters of Saint Anne, held an opening ceremony for the three schools, that the Buddhist NGO has rebuilt. The event was attended by approximately 500 people. Sister Rita from the congregation’s headquarters in Canada said, that Tzu Chi not only rebuilt schools, but also brought hope to Haiti.

  In Canada, the Vancouver Tzu Chi Academy, recently held a personal development course, for parents and volunteers, where they learned how to make good use of recyclable items, in their everyday life. Chen Shaosui, an expert in green living, also shared tips, on how to craft useful items out of plastic bottles.

  In Canada, two volunteer training seminars were held in the cities of Vancouver and Toronto. During the seminars, Tzu Chi volunteers shared their stories with those in the audience, as they hoped to inspire more to walk the Tzu Chi path.

  To extend their help to the disaster survivors in the Philippines, Canada Tzu Chi volunteers have mobilized to fundraise in the Greater Vancouver region over the past two weekends.

The Canada Mississauga Tzu Chi Academy and Burnaby Liaison Office both hosted a Lunar New Year prayer ceremony. The Burnaby City Government has long been supporting Tzu Chi and rented the liaison office to Tzu Chi for just NT$20 a year. On the day of the event, the weather warmed up and all the guests showed up cheerfully.