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Through Tzu Chi, your donation can help put rice on a family’s table, support life-changing medical care, fund scholarships for deserving students, and bring timely relief to survivors of calamities.

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Families hold up their claim cards at a Tzu Chi relief distribution. In 2025 Tzu Chi Philippines helped 17,356 families after disasters.

The coin bank. Tzu Chi began with 30 housewives saving 50 Taiwan cents (₱1) a day in bamboo banks. Volunteers still keep one at home.

Families carry rice home from a Tzu Chi distribution, 2025.

Charity

Rice for families in need

18,193 households given rice in 2025

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Dentists treat a patient at the Tzu Chi dental mission in Pampanga — A Tzu Chi dental mission in Angeles, Pampanga, August 2024.

Medicine

Free care at clinics and medical missions

9,199 patients treated at medical missions and the free clinic in 2025

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Tzu Chi scholars together at Bahay Tsinoy in Intramuros, Manila, on the first day of the 2025 Scholars’ Camp — Tzu Chi scholars at the 2025 Scholars’ Camp in Manila.

Charity

Scholarships for students

1,576 students supported in school and in tech‑voc training in 2025

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Tzu Chi volunteers and families holding their relief claim cards in Negros Island — Financial aid and groceries for families across Negros Island after Typhoon Tino, December 2025.

Disaster relief

Relief for families after disasters

17,356 families helped after disasters in 2025

More about disaster relief

2025 in figures

Charity

18,193

households given rice

Through direct rice assistance

A mother in red beside her smiling son in his wheelchair at Tzu Chi Charity Day

Volunteers gather round Nanay Socorro and her 100th birthday cake

Children in Davao with their snacks on a volunteers’ visit, a dog at their feet

A family of Tzu Chi beneficiaries with a volunteer at their home

A volunteer serves young children at “A Taste of Goodness”

Families in Bohol hold up their claim cards for GI sheets

Volunteers in hairnets knead dough in a kitchen

A volunteer with a girl at Girlstown in Silang, Cavite

Medicine

9,199

patients treated

At medical missions and the free clinic

Students in face shields line up for an eye test

A volunteer fits eyeglasses at an eye clinic in the Zamboanga City Jail

A volunteer greets a man in a wheelchair who came for a free prosthetic limb

A volunteer pediatrician examines a girl at a Tzu Chi medical mission in Navotas

A mother in wrist braces at Tzu Chi’s free clinic

A patient whose surgery Tzu Chi covered, with his family

Volunteers at a table of eyeglasses during a medical mission in Zamboanga

Charity

1,576

students on scholarships

For school and tech‑voc training

A graduating scholar holds her certificate between two volunteers

Scholars in their volunteer vests at a table at the 2025 Scholars’ Camp

Scholars in blue uniforms wave from their seats

Scholars in blue laugh over their paper folding at the 2025 Scholars’ Camp

Scholars cook together at the 2025 Scholars’ Camp

Welding students in green take a selfie in their workshop

Scholars in office clothes wait for their mock interviews

A Tzu Chi scholar in Iloilo shows his medals

Disaster relief

17,356

families helped after disasters

Through relief missions across the country

₱48.7 million given to families in cash aid and vouchers

₱22.9 million given to families in food, hygiene and medical kits

A volunteer goes over a form with a man after Typhoon Karding

A volunteer hands financial aid to a woman with a child whose house Typhoon Uwan destroyed, in Dingalan, Aurora

A volunteer bows, hands together, to a smiling woman taking her rice after a typhoon in Cagayan

Smiling women hold their claim cards at a typhoon relief in Montalban, Rizal

Women raise their hands at a relief distribution after Typhoon Kristine

A woman and a young man smile at a relief distribution

Volunteers in Bicol behind tables of hot meals for families after a typhoon

A volunteer embraces a resident at a flood relief in Catarman, Northern Samar

Stories of Kindness

Kenneth Lagonilla (opens in a new tab)

Summa cum laude, Bachelor of Secondary Education, major in Filipino

The eldest of six children of a tricycle driver, he finished college on a Tzu Chi scholarship.
Novoh John Obligado (opens in a new tab)

Welding course, batch 2023; TESDA NC II passer, 2024

He learned welding as a helper at a pier. Tzu Chi’s tech‑voc scholarship made him a certified welder.
Edrian de los Reyes (opens in a new tab)

Academic distinction, BS Computer Science, Divine Mercy College Foundation

Legally blind since he was 15, he could focus on his studies once a Tzu Chi scholarship covered his tuition.
Esmeralda Daganasol (opens in a new tab)

Caregiving alumna, Tech‑Voc batch 10

Unable to afford college, she took Tzu Chi’s caregiving course, and now she works for Tzu Chi.
Heart Baquilar (opens in a new tab)

3rd year, Early Childhood Education, Philippine Normal University

Her Tzu Chi scholarship opened doors for her at PNU, as a student and as an athlete.

All of these are possible because you chose to give.

97,543 lives touched in 2025

Counted from the families helped, at 4 to 5 people per household. From the Tzu Chi Philippines 2025 Summary Report.

Our work

Tzu Chi was established with four overarching missions, charity, medicine, education and humanistic culture, with charity as the first and most fundamental. In more recent years the four grew to eight, together known as Tzu Chi’s Eight Footprints.

More about the Eight Footprints How Tzu Chi began