Media Reports

From "Arts" Magazine, Canada May 1997 Issue
(Originally In Au Lac Language)

 

[Montreal] In January 1997, the Supreme Master Ching Hai International Association organized many relief programs for the homeless in Montreal. The Association consoled, visited, and brought gift bags to: La Maison du Pere, the Old Brewery Mission, La Mission Bon Acceuil, L'Abri D'espoire, Dans La Rue, Youth Centers, Women Centers, et cetera. Included in the gift bags were: blankets, rice, spaghetti, canned food, milk, sugar, soap, clothes and other essential items.

The Association also organized a program that provided food, blankets, socks and gloves directly to people living on the streets. The officials who operate these charitable Centers as well as the homeless people themselves were all touched by Supreme Master Ching Hai's extremely noble gesture, especially when they discovered that She was born in Au Lac.

Supreme Master Ching Hai has also extended help to the Au Lac refugees in camps in Hong Kong and the Philippines; victims of earthquakes in the USA; victims of floods in the Philippines, Au Lac, South America, Thailand, Formosa, Cambodia, China, et cetera.

In Tet Dinh Suu (the year of the buffalo), the Association also distributed gifts to over 40 Au Lac families at the Tet Expo organized by the Au Lac Community in Montreal at Complexes Des Jardins.

More importantly, Supreme Master Ching Hai has recently donated to the Au Lac Village in the Philippines a sum of $US 50,000.00 to improve living conditions for the Au Lac people who have settled there.

The monthly magazine, "Arts", has received:
   * Two videotapes entitled, "Traces of the Previous Life, I & II," which include poems written and recited by Supreme Master Ching Hai.
   * Three compact disks entitled, "Path of Legendary Love I, II, III" that include poems written by Dinh Hung and Vu Hoang Chuong, and recited by Supreme Master Ching Hai.
   The magazine greatly appreciates Supreme Master Ching Hai's work and proudly introduces the above two videos and three compact disks to the readers of "Arts" magazine.