Tzu Chi volunteers provide a training day for local volunteers in Port-au-Prince on September 4, 2021, as the countdown to

On September 1, 2021, Tzu Chi USA issued a press release to announce the arrival in Port-au-Prince, Haiti’s capital, of the Tzu Chi Haiti Earthquake Response Team, composed of volunteers from California and New York. They are there to coordinate and set immediate disaster relief distributions in motion, just two weeks after the magnitude 7.2 earthquake hit Haiti on August 14, 2021, causing extensive destruction. At the same time, they would begin work on the mid and long-term recovery plan.

On August 21 and 22, Tzu Chi Haiti volunteer Johnson Chang leads an initial assessment team to areas affected by

In April 2021, as news of the COVID-19 pandemic in India made international headlines, the country’s less noticed neighbor Nepal also shut down its borders as part of the effort to contain the latest wave of infection.