Focus Taiwan
Date: 2016/07/09
By Jalen Chung, Liu Li-jung, Wu Wan-ting, Chen Chun-hua, Chen
Chih-chung, Yang Shu-min, Chang Ming-hsuan and Frances Huang
Taipei, July 9 (CNA) Terry Gou (郭台銘), chairman of Taiwan-based Hon Hai Precision Industry Co.
CNA file photo
(鴻海), announced Saturday to donate NT$10 million (US$309,598) as a disaster relief aid to Taitung County, which was hit hard by Typhoon Nepartak a day earlier.
Gou, one of the richest persons in Taiwan, made the pledge to the Taitung County government through the YongLin Healthcare Foundation (永齡健康基金會), a non-governmental charity group, to help the affected persons in the eastern county, the most seriously hit area in Taiwan by the typhoon. Gou is the founder of the foundation.
Gou is well known for his generosity. After a deadly earthquake hit southern Taiwan in early February which killed a total of 117 persons in Tainan, the entrepreneur doled out NT$200 million to help the tremblor’s victims.
In the wake of the typhoon which caused grave damage in many school campuses in Taitung, Gou said he has been very concerned about the affected children and residents in the county. [FULL STORY]