Charity trip to Laiyuan, Hebei, April 25, 2008

Lotus staff and students joined a charity trip to Laiyuan, Hebei province with Tzu Chi compassion and relief Foundation.

Laiyuan(淶源) is five hours drive southeast of the Beijing. The area is classified as one of the nation's poorest.

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Charity Excursion to Rural Senior Centers

Each semester we organize charity excursions to senior centers. The aim of these excursions is to help students feel the life in other communities of China and learn "filial piety" 孝道,to be dutiful to one's parents and treat other elderly people with respect as if they were one's own parents—a very important part of traditional Chinese culture.

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Brent Smith from USA performing yoga with his host family for seniors at Beijing YiXing Senior Center. Brent is Managing Director of Developing Bank of Singapore; both he and his son joined Lotus summer program in 2007





Adrian LeCesne singing American songs for seniors with great emotion. Adrian is studying at Yale University. He joined Lotus 12 weeks Fall Program in 2006 and Homestay Only in summer 2007.
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Dragon Festival Rice-dumpling Charity Sale

Chinese traditional festival: Dragon Boat Festival is coming is a significant holiday celebrated in China, and eating rice dumplings on that day is a traditional custom.

The largest Chinese global charity organization TZU CHI Foundation organized a rice dumpling charity sale from May 24-May31,2007. TZU CHI Foundation planned to make and sell 20,000 rice dumplings and the entire fund raising is to help the schooling of poor students in rural areas. In this activity, Lotus students and host families actively took part in. they learned how to make Chinese traditional food ¨rice dumpling (Zong Zi), enjoyed the atmosphere of the Dragon Boat Festival and did their bit in helping the schooling of poor children. More

Rice Cake Charity Sale For GanSu Water Cellar

Lotus students, host families and Beijing staff take part in a rice cake charity sale on Jan 5th, which is organized by Tzu Chi foundation. The entire fund rising is to help the Tzu Chi water cellars project in GanSu province, west China.

In GanSu rainfall is less than 200 millimeters a year. Villagers have to walk 3 hours every day to get the water back. This small pond is the only water resource for hundreds of home.

    Villagers can barely get by using storage pits to collect rainwater. To provide clean drinking water for people living in GanSu, the Tzu Chi Foundation has built over 10,000 water cellars since 1997. This December, Tzu Chi volunteers gathered in Jingyuan County of GanSu to celebrate the official opening of 2,890 water cellars. With the completion of the second phase, the third phase has been contracted to begin next spring in Jingyuan County. More

Charity Festival in Phoenix Mountain

As a non-profit organization, we work to fulfill our mission to foster intercultural communications while at the same time giving support to charity organizations and activities in a variety of fields.
Charity Festival is lauched by a local charity organization every year in aim to encourage people to pay more attention to the less fortunate groups. More