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In the afternoon of February 4, 2024, a fire broke out and gutted a residential area in Upper Katipunan, Purok 1, Barangay Mansasa, Tagbilaran City. Twenty-seven families or 85 individuals lost their homes without salvaging anything. Tzu Chi Bohol volunteers and staff...

A life-long illness and being physically challenged is the greatest suffering of humankind. In her years of charity work, Dharma Master Cheng Yen had fathomed that sickness causes impoverishment and reciprocally poverty often leads to one being sick. Twenty years ago,...

Tzu Chi volunteers and donating members gathered in Sagbayan and Getafe, Bohol on January 20-21, 2024, for the annual Year-End Blessing ceremony. The event brought together over 771 attendees in Sagbayan and 1,047 in Getafe, mainly comprising of donating members, Tzu...

“I am pleased to inform you that the projects we (Tzu Chi) have undertaken in other towns will also be done here in Getafe. We will carry out the housing project and also organize a dental mission and other activities that we have introduced in other towns to Getafe,”...

Loboc, Bohol - Young couple Maria Lyn and Bernard Ray had just started to a build their small family when they were gifted with a bundle of joy on June 5,2021 and named her Maliah Lennessei Jacalan. According to the parents, Maliah was not a sickly baby until 6 months...

Province of Bohol, Philippines - Residents from the town of Baclayon flocked the Papal Hall located beside the historic Baclayon Church on Sunday, February 25, 2024 for a day filled with activities which was highlighted by a mobile dental mission made possible by a...

In December 2021, a powerful typhoon named Odette swept across the province of Bohol, causing widespread damage to many towns, including Loboc. Responding to the needs of the affected families, the Tzu Chi Foundation provided each household in Loboc with 20 kilograms...