August 4, 2017 forbes india | 83Achievement organisation
in 2010, and it’s helped
more than 4,000 jobless or
underemployed young adults
and people with disabilities
gain full-time employment.
Its programmes, which
run from three to nine
months, help people learn
job, interviewing and office-
software skills, as well as
introduce them to potential
employers. Other programmes
help workers maintain their
mental health—something
he decided was needed after
witnessing the stress his IT
engineers experienced.malaYsiaLim Wee Chai 59
EXECUTIVE CHAIRMAN &
FOUNDER, TOP GLOVE CORP
He and his wife, Tong Siew
Bee, started the Top Glove
Foundation in 2009 with
an initial $300,000. Since
then, the foundation has
donated roughly $5 million
to various causes, with a
focus on education. Recent
beneficiaries include several
Chinese-medium schools in
Malaysia as well as Universiti
Tunku Abdul Rahman, which
received $70,000 in 2015 to
create a chair for the Top
Glove Professor of Chemistry.Tan Kai Hee 80
EXECUTIVE CHAIRMAN,
HAI-O ENTERPRISE
At his 80th-birthday dinner
party in January, he announced
he was putting $22 million
of his shares in Hai-O—the
Chinese traditional-medicine
company he started in 1975—
into a trust, with stock gains
and dividends to be donated to
cultural, social, environmental
and educational charities.
At the same time, he alsopledged more than $500,000
to 38 entities, including
the Federation of Chinese
Associations Malaysia and the
Centre for Malaysian Chinese
Studies. Over the previous
nine years, he had donated
some $5 million; beneficiaries
included victims of the 2008
Sichuan earthquake, dozens
of Chinese-medium schools
around Malaysia, and Yayasan
Usman Awang, a foundation
dedicated to the memory of
the late National Laureate
that aims to promote unity
in multiracial Malaysia.mYanmarKen Tun 43
FOUNDER & CEO,
PARAMI ENERGY GROUP
Donated more than $1 million
for rural development,
reforestation and education
over the past few years. At
least 300,000 trees have
been planted out of a goal of
500,000. A special interest is
the country’s 1,000-year-old
system of Baka (monastery)
schools that today educate
more than 300,000 poor
children of all faiths in 1,600
schools. He helped organise
three conferences of Baka
teachers and leaders; the one
in May created the Sustainable
Baka School Association
to promote a child-centred
approach to teaching. Also
this year, he founded the
PyninYawDaya (‘Ray of
Education’) Foundation to
develop social enterprises
that will support Baka
schools and their graduates.the philippinesNanette
Medved-Po 46
FOUNDER, CHAIRMAN &PRESIDENT, GENERATION
HOPE & FRIENDS OF HOPE
A former actor and model,
she started Generation Hope,
which donates all profits from
the sale of Hope in a Bottle
bottled water to Friends of
Hope, a non-profit that builds
classrooms around the country.
She began the venture in 2012,
has spent nearly $900,000
and has sold almost 9 million
bottles, built 37 classrooms
and improved the learning
environment for more than
7,000 students. “I believe
investments in education
carry the greatest ripple effect
to narrow the wealth gap
over time and my building a
classroom was tangible and
easy enough for everyone
to understand,” she says.David Zuellig 60
Daniel Zuellig 56
TRUSTEES,
ZUELLIG FAMILY FOUNDATION
These cousins help steer
the foundation, which has
improved health care in rural
areas, significantly reducing
mortality rates for infants and
mothers. The family’s Zuellig
Group—a low-profile but
powerhouse pharmaceutical
company in Asia—has
contributed an average of $2.3
million annually over the last
five years to the foundation.
With 83 staff members, it trains
rural governors, mayors and
their staff in leadership and
good governance. Beginning in
2009 with nine municipalities,
the programme now serves
640 municipalities—42
percent of the country—
aided by partnerships
with the Philippine health
department, the UN and
the US government. The
company’s roots extend back to
the cousins’ Swiss grandfather,initiatives, universities and
other causes. In 2013, he signed
the Giving Pledge. (Tahir is
the majority shareholder in
Wahana Mediatama, which
publishes Forbes Indonesia.)
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