{"id":42379,"date":"2017-01-31T17:19:23","date_gmt":"2017-01-31T10:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/what-moves-this-malaysian-property-tycoon-to-help-needy-filipinos\/"},"modified":"2017-01-31T17:20:30","modified_gmt":"2017-01-31T10:20:30","slug":"what-moves-this-malaysian-property-tycoon-to-help-needy-filipinos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/what-moves-this-malaysian-property-tycoon-to-help-needy-filipinos\/","title":{"rendered":"What moves this Malaysian property tycoon to help needy Filipinos"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nBerjaya commits to fund more public housing in the Philippines
\nGawad Kalinga workers with US navy officials at a lot-clearing operation for the construction of a playground in the Philippines. Josh Cassatt\/Wikimedia Commons
\nIf rich Filipinos won\u2019t do it, a Malaysian will.
\nVincent Tan, founder of Malaysian conglomerate Berjaya Group, has vowed anew to shelter thousands of destitute households in the Philippines.
\n\u201cWe committed 3,000 houses several years ago and if you build faster, we would like to commit 5,000 houses,\u201d he said at the closing ceremony of the Global Social Business Summit this month in the province of Bulacan.
\nTan, who has a net worth of USD1.1 billion, counts as one of the most generous benefactors of the social welfare nonprofit Gawad Kalinga (GK) Community Development Foundation. Berjaya and GK have jointly developed 1,000 houses across 12 resettlement projects in the Philippines.
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\n\u201cThe rich became rich because a lot of poor people supported their businesses,\u201d Tan reasoned.
\nIn partnership with GK, Berjaya pledged in 2012 to build 3,000 homes for low-income Filipinos, especially those displaced by natural calamities. In 2015, Tan personally attended groundbreaking ceremonies of a 100-unit village in Cagayan de Oro that was being built for survivors of Tropical Storm Washi (Sendong).
\nTan claimed to have watched the calamity unfold from London in 2011. He was similarly moved when Typhoon Bopha (Pablo) struck a year later in Compostela Valley.
\n\u201cI pledge half of my wealth to charitable work,\u201d he said. \u201cThe masses support our business and who are the masses? Many of them are poor.\u201d
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\nSource : property-report.com
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