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A quiet philanthropist |
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You may not have heard of Henry Ngai nor of ABC Tissue. You will not have heard that Henry is a recipient of President’s Obama Voluntary Service Award. You will not know that he was a Champion of Champions at the 25th annual Ethnic Business Awards. Nor will you hear of the acts of charity that is too numerous to list.
 Henry’s story began from the young age of nine where he started working in his father’s small shop, keeping watch over the shop and doing his homework there. That small shop supported the livelihood of the twelve members in the family.
Jenny Ngai is his stalwart supporter. She managed the domestic side of their lives and both gradually opened up a new road to their lives. |
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In 1985 Henry and his family migrated to Australia, having to confront another pioneering challenge. |
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In recent years with his children are working in the business, Henry began to engage in charity work. The recipients of his generosity included the Red Cross, The Salvation Army, Fairfield Hospital, Cyclone Larry Appeal and the China Disaster Preparedness Project (A Red Cross initiative) |
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Over the past ten or more years his charity work progressed steadily under the support and encouragement of his friends and community associates. |
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In 2012 ABC Tissue donated money and materials to China, Cambodia and Vietnam. |
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ABC Tissue Vision Express was also established to assist 14 eye hospitals in China and Cambodia to perform cataract operations free of charge. From its beginning in October 2009 until now 32,000 cataract operations have been performed. Henry and his friends hope to accomplish 100,000 cataract operations by the end of 2022. |
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At the 2012 Hong Kong Federation of Hong Kong Worldwide Businesses, the Success Story Award for the Asian Pacific Region was won by Mr Henry Ngai. |
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In 2012 Henry and his friends donated 35,400 hearing aids, 70,000 parkas, 35,000 pairs of sunglasses and 20,000 pairs of presbyopia glasses to the hospitals of China and Cambodia. Henry said “My friends and I went to different places to donate gifts and assisted the patients to wear their hearing aids. The hearty smiles on their faces made us forget the hard work we had gone through, and gave us more energy to help more people. After we realized that thirty million people are in need of hearing aids, my friends and I have decided to further donate 120 thousand hearing aids to China and Cambodia in 2013.” |
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Henry said “I have only done what I always like doing and it cannot be said to be a great achievement. If it has been an achievement, it could not have been accomplished without support and encouragement, so the achievement really belongs to all of us.” |
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