Archaus Architects Inc. is honoured to be part of the local initiatives led by Tzu Chi Foundation. Tzu Chi Foundation is an international, cross-religion, cross-cultural, humanitarian organization and a non-governmental organization (NGO) with an international network of volunteers and employees that has been awarded a special consultative status at the United Nations Economic and Social Council. It has branches in more than 40 countries worldwide with local volunteers and staff members dedicated to charity causes, medical contributions, education development, humanities, international disaster assistance, bone-marrow donation, community volunteerism, and environmental protection. For more than 20 years of dedicated devotion to the charity causes by its member volunteers, Tzu Chi Foundation Canada has received the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal from The Right Honourable Stephen Harper, Prime Minister of Canada, personally, in 2012.