Since then, Tzu Chi has continued to carry out aid work in China, constructing new villages and relocating people living in the mountains of Guizhou Province where land and climate conditions have confined generations to poverty. Tzu Chi volunteers have built water cisterns in drought-stricken Gansu Province, provided tuition aid to poor children, and conducted yearly winter aid distributions to help the rural poor survive harsh winter conditions.
Type of Aid
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Quantity
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Benefiting Provinces |
Water Cellars
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19,060 wells
|
Gansu |
Senior Citizens' Nursing Homes
|
10 centers, 148 units
|
Anhui, Jiangsu |
Low-Fluorine Brick Tea (Sent healthier low-fluorine tea for fluorine poisoning regions)
|
Established 19 Experimental Zones (Including experimental groups and control groups). Monitored 8,101 people. Helped 6,317 Tibetans at 6 natural villages, 6 schools, 5 temples and 1 old folks home.
|
Tibet, Sichuan |
Jetties
|
2 units
|
Fujian |
Hospital Buildings
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2 hospitals Fujian, | Shanghai |
Financial Aid and Scholarships
|
105,802 individuals
|
Anhui, Hebei, Jiangsu, Guizhou, Jiangxi, Shanghai City, Hubei, Fujian, Henan, Zhejiang, Sichuan, Tianjing City |
Emergency Relief Aid, Large-scale Aid Distributions, Winter Aid Distributions (Including food, cooking oil, winter clothes, blankets, medical supplies, shoes and other items of daily necessity)
|
Since 1991, Tzu Chi aid distributions in disasters and poor regions have benefited 2,73,4019 individuals. | Guangdong, Fujian, Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hunan, Hubei, Henan, Anhui, Jiangsu, Shandong, Hebei, Liaoning, Qinghai, Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia, Sichuan, Yunnan, Shanghai, Hainan |
Day Care Centers
|
13 centers
|
Anhui, Jiangsu, Henan, Hunan, Zhejiang, Guizhou, Guangdong, Yunnan, Ningxia |
Da Ai (Great Love) Houses
|
4,882 households
|
Anhui, Jiangsu, Henan, Hebei, Hunan, Jiangxi, Guangxi, Guizhou, Gansu, Guangdong, Fujian, Sichuan |
Children Welfare House
|
1 home | Hubei |
Bone Marrow Delivery
|
1,303 cases
|
Guangdong, Zhejiang, Beijing, Shanghai, Jiangsu, Sichuan, Hubei, Tianjing, Shaanxi, Guangxi, Shandong, Henan, Hainan, Harbin, Fujian, Chongqing, Yunnan |
"Project Hope" Schools
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56 schools | Anhui, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Hebei, Fujian, Guizhou, Henan, Gansu, Liaoning, Xinjiang, Sichuan, Guangdong Remark 1: Built first high school in Luodian County in Guizhou. Remark 2: Wuhan's Tzu Chi Children's Welfare Center is included under "Institute Construction", not under "School Reconstruction." |
"Bright Movement" - Vision Care
|
7,556 individuals
|
Jiangsu, Fujian, Hebei |
Source: Tzu Chi Department of Religious Affairs
Translated by Kai Liang Nyoi
Edited by Dennis Lee