Duration | 2:11
Category | Education, Env. Protection, Miscellaneous
Organisation | Tzu-Chi Foundation (Singapore)
Building a Kind and Good Society with Continued Love
At Tzu Chi Singapore’s 2019 Year End Blessing Ceremony, visitors raised their environmental awareness and realised the urgency of environmental conservation at its display area featuring the NGO’s environmental efforts. Young volunteers from Tzu Chi’s children’s and teenagers’ classes helped to promote the environmental message, encourage people to adopt green practices, and serve tea to visitors.
Statistics and information on the environmental issue and disasters resulting from climate change remind city dwellers of the urgent issue of global warming. These vivid displays deepen people’s environmental awareness.
Lim Yi Shen, Visitor: Maybe the entire Singapore will be submerged. I feel worried because Singapore will become an unlivable place. I will reduce wastage from now on.
Tan Sai Ngin, Visitor: There wouldn’t be anymore Nature (in future) as it would have been destroyed. The future generations’ health may also be affected. We just do what we can to protect the environment, starting from ourselves.
The 2019 Year End Blessing Ceremony display areas showcase Tzu Chi Singapore’s developments and Missions. The Mission of Education does not have a specific area. Instead, young children go among people to share with them and serve them.
Student of student care centre, Eeson Wong Kang Yi: I carried a board that we made around the display areas to share with people Jing Si Aphorisms. One of them was “Counting our blessings and sowing more blessings.” I feel very happy and learned many things while sharing with people. I’ve also met various kinds of people.
Tzu Chi volunteer, Zhou Hai Yan: Education actually focuses on people and is implemented on people. So, we hope to present Tzu Chi’s principles and philosophy on education through the efforts of the students from Tzu Chi’s preschool, children’s and teenagers’ classes, and collegiate youth association.
Visitor, Goh Boon Nai: She said we must speak good words, do good deeds, and our mindsets must be upright. She spoke very well. If more children could grow up with such an attitude, the world would be blessed.
Be it adults or children, everyone must play their roles well and build a kind and good society together, so that our posterity will have a wonderful future.
