Founder and Chairman of Luenthai Group, he is a dedicated entrepreneur, philanthropist, and ambassador of international friendship, with deep roots in Hong Kong. Having lived in the Philippines, Malaysia, Guam, and Saipan, he has been actively involved in overseas Chinese affairs for over 40 years, fostering exchanges between China, Hong Kong, and the Western Pacific. Wherever his business expands, his philanthropic efforts follow. He has established the Tan Siu Lin Foundation in Hong Kong, Saipan, Guam, and Quanzhou, Fujian, supporting education, disability services, healthcare, and poverty alleviation. With donations totaling billions, he leads by example, embedding philanthropy into his family values and involving his children and grandchildren in charitable initiatives worldwide.
Co-founder of the "New Sight Congo " She has participated in various humanitarian initiatives, such as establishing mobile clinics and offering first aid courses. In 2006, she moved from the UK to Gabon, Africa, with her family and, together with her husband, Dr. Henri Samoutou, founded a nonprofit ophthalmology center at a missionary hospital, helping around 6,000 patients annually. In 2011, she established the "Sight Restoration Project" with the vision that "no one should go blind from treatable eye diseases." She relocated with her young children to northern Congo to develop the first nonprofit eye care center. The organization is registered in both the UK and Hong Kong and is currently working on building a second comprehensive ophthalmic teaching hospital, aiming to restore vision and transform lives.
The 48th-generation heir of the Linji school, he founded Fo Guang Shan in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, in 1967. Throughout his life, he has spread Buddhism through culture, nurtured talents through education, benefited society through charity, and purified minds through communal practice, advocating for Humanistic Buddhism. He has worked to institutionalize, modernize, humanize, and globalize Buddhism.
He has established over 300 temples and five universities worldwide, and founded the Buddha’s Light International Association (BLIA) in more than 170 countries and regions, making it the largest global Chinese Buddhist organization. This fulfills the vision of "The Buddha’s Light shining across the three thousand worlds, and the Dharma water flowing through the five continents." Additionally, he has set up foundations to promote cultural education and foster harmony between Taiwan and mainland China, contributing to world peace. Since 1970, he has also established orphanages, elderly care homes, Yunshui Hospital, and Fo Guang Clinics.
Born in 1940 in Padua, Italy, he arrived in Taiwan in 1965 with his brother, Father Antonio Didone, and has served there ever since. In 1967, he began working at Luodong Tuberculosis Hospital and Leprosy Hospital. During the 1970s and 1980s, while serving in Penghu and Luodong, he witnessed the lack of proper care and education for individuals with disabilities. In response, he established the Huimin Center for Intellectual Disability and St. Camillus Center for Intellectual Disability in these regions.
Recognizing Taiwan’s aging population, he later transformed the Maruyama Tuberculosis Hospital into a senior care center and, in 2009, founded the St. Camillus Long-Term Care Center. His lifelong wish is to "nurture the world with goodwill and love." Inspired by the Christian spirit of universal love, he has dedicated himself to providing dignity, hope, and peace to individuals with disabilities, devoting every ounce of his strength to special education.
Chairman of the Topkey Foundation. While achieving success in his career, he remains grateful to society and has been actively engaged in public welfare for a long time. Guided by the principles of altruism and mutual benefit, he led his company's transformation and pursued a business philosophy centered on creating three times or more innovation value. After receiving awards, he donated three times the prize money, totaling $450,000, entirely to charitable causes.
In 2010, he founded the foundation to promote corporate social responsibility, media literacy, and holistic youth education, systematically giving back to society. He established a corporate volunteer platform to facilitate the exchange of experiences in public service and resource integration. Through networking and collaboration, he expands the ripple effect of kindness, gathers collective strength, and inspires more people to care for society and actively participate in public welfare.
He has worked at the State Council's Rural Development Research Center and Harvard University's International Development Research Institute. At the age of 50, he transitioned into the public welfare sector, taking leadership of the newly founded China Development Research Foundation. Under his leadership, the foundation made significant progress in international exchanges, high-end training, and social experiments.
In 2006, he began focusing on malnutrition among impoverished children. In 2007, he conducted social experiments to improve the nutritional conditions of children in boarding schools. In 2011, he released an assessment report on children in poverty-stricken areas, which led the State Council to officially launch an improvement plan benefiting nearly 40 million students. In 2009, he established the first rural kindergarten in Qinghai. Over the next 11 years, he helped establish more than 2,000 kindergartens across 11 provinces and 27 counties, benefiting nearly 200,000 children.
Founder of the Beijing Haiying Spine Health Charity Foundation and Director of the Spine Surgery Department at Peking University People's Hospital. In 2001, he led the formation of one of China's earliest spine surgery teams, advancing the treatment of spinal diseases. In 2011, he established the country's only charity focused on spinal diseases. To fulfill his vow of "alleviating patients' suffering and saving lives," he performs over 800 surgeries annually, becoming the physician with the highest number of spine surgeries and the lowest complication rate in China. Over the past 8 years, he and his team have traveled to 43 counties across 16 provinces during their holidays, establishing 17 spinal disease rescue centers nationwide and providing free consultations to over 6,000 patients in mountainous areas.
The founder and president of the "Simply Help Foundation" in Los Angeles. Born into a poor military family in Taiwan, she deeply understands that material wealth is not the source of happiness, and giving back to society is life's true mission. In 2000, she founded the foundation, which has provided aid to 26 countries including El Salvador, Cambodia, and Paraguay through charity donations and education, promoting self-sufficiency. The foundation has sent over 400 containers of relief supplies to disaster zones and impoverished countries, and established 26 schools and vocational training centers in Central America and Asia, enabling more than 20,000 poor children to acquire vocational skills. Additionally, it has built six elderly care centers for orphaned elderly in El Salvador and Panama, providing for over 200 elderly individuals annually. The foundation holds a seat in UN NGO activities.