Twice a year, the Tzu Chi Education Foundation cooperates with the Walnut City Environmental Protection Bureau to distribute organic soil to the public. Volunteers take this opportunity to promote vegetarianism and encourage people to be healthier with less meat and more vegetables.
Tzu Chi Education Foundation designed a unique Compassionate Vegetarian Plan around the theme of “friends not animals” for the 2023 “Great Kindness Challenge” to promote vegetarianism with tens of millions of teachers and students in more than 30,000 schools around the world.
The Tzu Chi Education Foundation invited 9,517 teachers and students from 38 Tzu Chi schools in eight countries to participate in the Great Kindness Challenge to promote compassionate vegetarianism.
The President’s Volunteer Service Award Ceremony was held on December 3rd at the Tzu Chi Walnut Campus-Life Science Garden in Los Angeles. The awards were presented to volunteers who are dedicated to serving the community and the environment.
Tzu Chi Great Love Preschools in California teach children compassion and good intentions through a toy donation drive for underprivileged children held in collaboration with the local fire department.
On December 7, 2022, at the invitation of Shelyn Elementary School of Rowland Unified School District, the Tzu Chi Education team brought a fun-filled environmental education class to the school.
On October 28, 2022, a special Halloween event, “Environmental Protection and No Tricks,” was held at Tzu Chi Elementary School, Great Love Preschool Walnut, and Great Love Preschool Monrovia. The students, teachers, and parents participated in the fun and educational holiday event.
In October 2022, Tzu Chi Elementary School, Walnut, California, and Tzu Chi Life Science Farm collaborated to teach students the Tzu Chi philosophy of “Knowing, Cherishing, and then Creating Blessings” by combining character education and organic farming.
Tzu Chi preschoolers line up to put pocket money into a Love Milk Bottle, thus contributing to Tzu Chi USA’s Grace & Gratitude Concert fundraiser. Photo/Xunmu Huang Written by Yixuan TsaiTranslated by Mark WanEdited by Ida Eva Zielinska Tzu Chi USA held a two-day Grace & Gratitude Concert on November 20 and 21, 2021, as a charity fundraiser event under the slogan of “Concerted Effort to Spread Love & Benevolence.”
Tzu Chi Elementary School in Walnut, California, organized a clothes recycling drive from October 10 to 21, 2022. Everyone, from teachers, parents, and students, did their best to cooperate, with 109 people participating. In the spirit of “cherishing things and blessings,” families donated their unwanted clothes and shoes to give them a second life when people in need in the community received them. The drive seamlessly combined charity with environmental protection through recycling second-hand yet still valuable goods. A total of 250 bags of donated clothing were collected and delivered to a charity distribution site.
