Tzu Chi Philippines volunteers led by CEO Henry Yuñez present to members of the media their charity run T-shirts and singlets made from recycled PET bottles. Runrio race organizer Coach Rio de la Cruz holds up a collapsible hydration cup made from the biodegradable agricultural waste wheat straw.
The daughter of a single mother who sold kwek kwek and paper bags, Cherrie Rose Ang was a working student who contributed to the family’s income by tutoring, working as a market vendor, and selling breakfast to her dormmates. Her goal then? “To be rich,” she says. It also gave her direction—and a new goal. Through the foundation’s livelihood and outreach programs she attended as a member of Tzu Chi Youth, Ang developed an interest in counseling.