Sumeru News — Charity

Nepal earthquake relief

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Here is how you can donate funds for Nepal earthquake relief in Canada… Karuna-Shechen Foundation was started by Ven. Mathieu Ricard to do humanitarian projects in the Himalayan Region. They are based in Kathmandu. Here is their international earthquake relief web-page: http://karuna-shechen.org/news/help-earthquake-victims-in-nepal/ And here is the web-page for their Canadian branch: http://canada.karuna-shechen.org/ We have already been... Read more »

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Charity event for AboutFace

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We have been working for a few years now as volunteers for an organization called AboutFace, a registered Canadian charity that supports people with facial differences (from birth defect, accident or illness). They run a fundraising campaign called 1000 dinners for 100,000 dreams and we are proud to have helped them parter with Symposium Café as... Read more »

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Sumeru books donated to the Shambhala Sun Foundation online auction

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We donated some items to the Shambhala Sun Foundation online auction: Searching for the Heart of Sacred Space https://www.biddingforgood.com/auction/item/item.action?id=222434588  Buddhist Astrology https://www.biddingforgood.com/auction/item/item.action?id=222434916 An American Buddhist Life https://www.biddingforgood.com/auction/item/item.action?id=222433460

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Buddhist Compassion Relief Tzu Chi Foundation helps out in flooded western Canada

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Here’s a great story from the Vancouver Courier about the Buddhist Compassion Relief  Tzu Chi Foundation… “From a nondescript office in Marpole, the Vancouver chapter of Buddhist Compassion Relief Tzu Chi Foundation has, since 1992, run diverse programs that see teams of uniformed volunteers cooking food at the Salvation Army in the Downtown Eastside, visiting... Read more »

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Tzu Chi Foundation Canada opens new headquarters in Richmond, BC

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Via the Richmond Review… One of Richmond’s largest volunteer foundations just got bigger. Buddhist Tzu Chi Foundation volunteers and city officials gathered on Wednesday to declare the opening of the global relief organization’s new and improved establishment. “We get so much from Canada, that’s why we have to contribute our volunteer services and many other... Read more »

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