Growing up as a youth
denied formal education as Chinese descendant, Sukanto Tanoto established Tanoto Foundation as a mean to help
other unfortunate children that cannot continue their educations. Tanoto
Foundation has programs to support education by donating to schools, buying
them school supplies and teaching equipment, and giving scholarships and
research grants for students, teachers and professors. He passed on his
foundation to be run by his daughter, Belinda Tanoto, who has the same passion
in social causes.
How Belinda and Sukanto Tanoto Run the Foundation
Belinda Tanoto has
proven herself as the worthy leader and runner of Tanoto Foundation. She was
brought up by her father with lessons about the importance of education, both
for self and for the goodness of the country. She is also reminded in daily
basis about responsibilities to help the unfortunate in education. Therefore,
when Sukanto Tanoto trusted her to run the foundation, she did not refuse and
jumped in straight away. Thanks to her father, Belinda also has great concern
about
A graduate from
Deerfield College and Wharton, Belinda has resilience, knowledge and instinct
to run and develop the foundation, so it can help more people. Under her hands,
Tanoto Foundation has become one of scholarship foundations recommended by
Indonesian government, and it often works together with the government in
various educational and social events. Two exceptional achievements were
financial support to build new building for Faculty of Forestry at Gadjah Mada
University, and grants to develop organic vegetables and medicinal herbs at
Faculty of Science at Universitas Negeri Surakarta.
The foundation is
still running several distinctive programs to support education not only in
Indonesia, but also in Singapore and China. In fact, Tanoto Foundation has
helped building schools and donating school supplies to China, as well as
giving scholarships to medical students in Singapore.
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