Charity

• Family services include short-term and long-term support. Tzu Chi provides financial, spiritual, or special assistance in times of need. Volunteers assist 110 families individually in Canada annually. Tzu Chi has cared for some families continuously for more than a decade.

• Tzu Chi provides disaster assistance from apartment fires to large-scale disasters such as earthquakes and floods. Tzu Chi volunteers assist by personally giving out Emergency Cash Gifts within days of the disaster. Tzu Chi volunteers have assisted families during the

Fatal tour bus crash in Revelstoke, BC           (2000)

BC Forest Fire                                              (2003)

Squamish flooding                                         (2003)

Apartment block fires in Burnaby                   (2005, 2006)

Apartment block fire in Richmond & Surrey   (2006)

Plane-struck apartment block in Richmond     (2007)

Fatal car crash in Golden, BC                        (2007); etc. 

 

• Since 1992, Tzu Chi volunteers have been providing group home visits and companionship to seniors and women shelters, etc. on a regular and continuous basis, which include the following:

Metro Vancouver

• Villa Cathay Care Home
• Cooper Place
• Little Mountain Residential Care
• Kinsmen Place Lodge
• Northcrest Care Centre
• White Rock Senior's Activity Centre
• Dufferin Care Centre
• Oak Tree

Metro Toronto

• Wesburn Manor
• Sheridan Villa, Peel Long Term Care
• Kennedy Lodge Nursing Home
• Tender Care Nursing Home
• The Heritage Nursing Home

Montreal

• Logement Communautaire Chinois Phase II
• Old Brewery Mission

• Volunteers provide services at the following Food Banks across the Greater Vancouver area:

Vancouver Food Bank (East Broadway)

Vancouver Food Bank (Houston St.)

Burnaby Food Bank

North Burnaby Food Bank

Surrey Food Bank

Richmond food Bank

• Physically cooking and serving hot meals at:

Metro Vancouver

• Meals on Wheels
• The Salvation Army
• Dusk to Dawn Youth Resource Centre
• Moody Middle School Lunch Services

Metro Toronto

• Evangel Hall Community Dinner
• Drop-in Hot meal Volunteer Station

• During winter seasons, Tzu Chi volunteers distribute essential materials, such as winter jackets, blankets, towels, and sanitary products to the homeless throughout the Greater Vancouver area as well as patients in the Detoxification Centre in Vancouver's Down Town East Side.
• The community support program works with neighborhood organizations to meet needs of individuals and families. Tzu Chi provides financial assistance and gives daily necessities such as backpacks, shoes and uniforms to neighborhood schools and local organizations to help families who cannot afford these basics.

• Material and financial assistance to the First Nations societies such as

Vancouver Native Health Society

Mt. Currie Indian Band

Grandview Elementary School