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SICA Presents:

About Us
for Taiwan
SIS
International
Crisis
Awareness
(SICA)
You can make the difference.
SICA is an opportunity for students to become
aware of natural disasters that are occurring
around the world and to do something about
their devastating after-affects. It’s an informal,
non-profitable club made by students, advised
by eligible teachers.

Our purpose is to:


Increase international awareness of
disastrous events.
Fulfill the fifth ESLR: Demonstrating

SIS International Crisis


Awareness (SICA)
Phone: 135-1010-3612
E-mail: 10vc01@sis.org.cn
What are we
doing? What Happened?
Charity
Organization
The charity organization that we are
donating to is called Tzu Chi
Foundation.

Tzu Chi Foundation was established


in1966 by Venerable Dharma Master
Cheng Yen on the impecunious east
coast of Taiwan. For over 42 years,
the foundation has been contributing Typhoon Morakot hit Taiwan with
SIS International Crisis Awareness strong winds and heavy
to better social and community
(SICA) is raising money to help the downpours on August 7. Toppled
services, medical care, education and buildings, landslide burying
victims of Typhoon Morakot in Taiwan. humanism in Taiwan and around the villages, overflowing rivers and
Because Halloween is approaching, world. From the first 30 members, flooded streets are among the
we’ve run through different options, housewives who saved two cents ravages it has made to many
and finally settled on selling candy for from their grocery money each day to areas. Thousands of people have
Halloween. help the poor, the foundation has been displaced.
grown to over five million members in
45 countries. More than 17,000 Tzu Chi
volunteers around Taiwan
Your benefits: Your benefits include immediately started relief efforts.
that of knowing that you helped Tzu Chi’s missions focus on giving
More than 200,000 hot meals
material aid to the needy and have already been delivered.
Taiwan through the help of buying
inspiring love and humanity to both Emergency relief money of
candy for Halloween. Also, this saves givers and receivers. It also NT$5,000-10,000 per household
you a trip from having to travel far in promotes humanistic is scheduled to be distributed to
Shenzhen in order to just find candy values and community 12,000 families in the hardest hit
to hand out to trick-or-treaters. Smart volunteerism. Through helping areas. Tzu Chi volunteers have
those in need, Tzu Chi volunteers distributed relief materials,
right? Whoever knew that Halloween
take on the path of bodhisattva including 25 tons of instant rice,
could save lives through candy sales? 2,000 boxes of instant noodles,
practices, the way to Buddhahood.
34,000 eco-friendly blankets and
utensils and other daily
Other benefits: Other benefits are necessities.
that we help Taiwan with the money SIS International Crisis
donations collected from candy sales, Awareness (SICA)
know that we’ve done something
good for the world, and that we’ve
Phone: 135-1010-3612
helped, even only very little, Taiwan E-mail: 10vc01@sis.org.cn

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