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Spreading Awareness of Recycling ─ Juying Students Do Their Part

Spreading Awareness of Recycling ─ Juying Students Do Their Part

For over two years, Juying Secondary School, whose students have benefitted from the Tzu Chi Seeds of Hope (SOH) Financial Assistance Scheme, has worked together with the organization to hold talks on environmental awareness for its Secondary Four student

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Tzu Chi Holds Eco Awareness Fair by the Sungei Api Api

Tzu Chi Holds Eco Awareness Fair by the Sungei Api Api

Situated by the banks of the Sungei Api Api, the Tzu Chi Foundation (Singapore) jointly organised a green exhibition with the neighbourhood grassroots committee on 20 December 2015. Residents were invited to the “Sungei Api Api Neighbourhood Eco Awareness

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Joining the Town for a Recycling Day Out

Joining the Town for a Recycling Day Out

On 7 November 2015, the Tzu Chi Foundation (Singapore) was invited to take part in Marine Parade Town Day and the Clean & Green Litter Picking Exercise, organised by the Marine Crescent Ville Residents' Committee. The event aimed to heighten eco-conscious

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Promoting Water Saving and Food Waste Prevention at SG50 Carnival

Promoting Water Saving and Food Waste Prevention at SG50 Carnival

The two-day Clean & Green SG50 Carnival, which was organised by the National Environment Agency (NEA) of Singapore and held from 31 October to 1 November, attracted some 20,000 people. Tzu Chi volunteers served as docents at the Carnival’s NParks & PUB ex

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Student Delegates from Ten Countries Learn About Recycling at Tzu Chi

Student Delegates from Ten Countries Learn About Recycling at Tzu Chi

A number of teachers and a hundred students who were participating in the Round Square International Conference 2015 hosted by the United World College of South East Asia (UWCSEA) visited the Tzu Chi Eco-Awareness Centre on 5 October 2015. Hailing from te

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A Litter-Free Yellow Ribbon Run

A Litter-Free Yellow Ribbon Run

During the 2015 Yellow Ribbon Prison Run, Tzu Chi was there to promote a clean, litter-free environment and to engage in recycling. Also present were helpers from the waste collection companies who were happy to provide first-level sorting of waste picked

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Celebrate SG50 By Supporting a Green Cause

Celebrate SG50 By Supporting a Green Cause

On 25th and 26th July, 2015, when the Fengshan Diamond Residents’ Committee was distributing SG50 fun packs to residents, volunteers from the Tzu Chi Foundation (Singapore) were also present to promote environmental awareness. Over the two-day period, abo

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Seeing Reality – The Food Journey

Seeing Reality – The Food Journey

More than 90% of the food consumed in Singapore is imported, but little do people know about the journey food takes from farm to table. After a 3-year hiatus, it was on the morning of 16 May, 2015, that 40 youths from the Tzu Chi Collegiate Association...

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Operation WE Clean Up!

Operation WE Clean Up!

On 3 May 2015, “Operation WE Clean Up!” commenced in 133 locations across Singapore. The day before, cleaners in the designated areas were asked to stop work so that the public could see for themselves the true state of the island city’s cleanliness...

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My Second Home — The Tzu Chi Eco-Awareness Centre

My Second Home — The Tzu Chi Eco-Awareness Centre

The Tzu Chi Eco-Awareness Centre not only collects and sorts recyclables. In addition to educating the public on being environmentally friendly, it is also the second home to many “aunties”. Since it became operational in August 2014, the coordinator...

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National Environment Agency’s First Visit to Tzu Chi

National Environment Agency’s First Visit to Tzu Chi

Eight officials from the National Environment Agency visited Tzu Chi Singapore’s Jing Si Hall for the first time on 24 January 2015. The NEA team and ten experienced recycling volunteers from Tzu Chi exchanged ideas and knowledge on environmental conserva

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A Couple’s Joyous Dedication Towards Protecting the Earth

A Couple’s Joyous Dedication Towards Protecting the Earth

Bi Yu Kun and Chen Ya Ting, a husband-and-wife team from Shun Fu Road who have been Tzu Chi volunteers for 21 years, remain dedicated to their beliefs and have never looked back. Their family is not well-to-do; they have to work hard to make ends meet...

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Towards Cleaner Roads - The Yellow Ribbon Run

Towards Cleaner Roads - The Yellow Ribbon Run

On 14th September 2014, during the 6th Yellow Ribbon Prison Run, Tzu Chi not only shared with others its care of inmates, but also brought the theme of environmental protection to the event...

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When Hunger Strikes, a Four-Year-Old Makes His Choice Wisely

When Hunger Strikes, a Four-Year-Old Makes His Choice Wisely

The educational exhibitions during the auspicious seventh lunar month prayer and blessing ceremony has certainly left deep impressions on many visitors. The interactive exhibitions showed...

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Tzu Chings Extend the Lifespan of Bottles

Tzu Chings Extend the Lifespan of Bottles

On 18th May 2014, in conjunction with the Global Tzu Ching activity "In Praise of the Hands that Recycle," Singapore Tzu Chings engaged in a street cleaning and upcycling activity. A group of youths took up the call and picked up cans and bottles along th

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Recycling and Vegetarianism Get an Airing on Campus

Recycling and Vegetarianism Get an Airing on Campus

In conjunction with Earth Day, the Master of Science Environmental Management Programme (MEM) Alumni organized a seven-hour long “Waste Minimisation—Recycling and Vegetarianism” seminar at the Shaw Foundations Alumni House located at the NUS...

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“Health and Vegetarianism” talk from Eastern and Western perspective

“Health and Vegetarianism” talk from Eastern and Western perspective

The Tzu Chi Free Clinic TCM department organized a “Health and Vegetarianism” talk on 22 March 2014 to educate the public about the benefits of a vegetarian diet. The topic was explained from both the standpoints of western nutritional science and the eas

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Going Vegetarianism During the Mid-Autumn Festival Distribution

Going Vegetarianism During the Mid-Autumn Festival Distribution

With the Mid-Autumn Festival coming up, volunteers from Tzu Chi Singapore shared the idea of celebrating the festival by encouraging vegetarianism to protect the environment. Care recipients were invited to collect...

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