Students at Tzu Chi Walnut Elementary School explored vibrant cultural traditions, and found that the path to a harmonious world can begin with a single act of understanding.
Through the Tzu Chi Education Foundation, students of Tzu Chi Walnut Elementary School and Tzu Chi Great Love Preschool Walnut, participated in the yearly Great Kindness Challenge to learn the importance of kindness and perform the Tzu Chi “Go Green Pledge” for an eco-friendly future.
Through the Tzu Chi Education Foundation, students of Tzu Chi Walnut Elementary School and Tzu Chi Great Love Preschool Walnut, participated in the yearly Great Kindness Challenge to learn the importance of kindness and perform the Tzu Chi “Go Green Pledge” for an eco-friendly future.
In late February 2024, students from Shelyn Elementary School found themselves at the Tzu Chi Walnut Campus Life Science Garden for a memorable ecological tour of the farm’s varied vegetation that both educated and inspired them in environmental protection.
Tzu Chi Great Love Preschool, Walnut, California, and Tzu Chi Great Love Preschool, Monrovia, California, held activities as part of the 2023-2024 Great Kindness Challenge, during which children learned to express their gratitude, to be kind to others, and to protect the earth.
Two Tzu Chi Great Love Preschools in Southern California organized a gratitude and blessing graduation ceremony for their graduating students. Teachers presented each student with a tassel and handed them their first graduation certificate and graduation gift, marking an important milestone in their lives.
Librarians bring the story’s plot to life with vivid stickers, and the students listen with rapt attention. Photo/Ihsuan Tsai Written by Ihsuan Tsai and Judy
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.
